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

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

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

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

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith

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

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.