I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.