Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.

Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.