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.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.