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.

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

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

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.