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.

Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.

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

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

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

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