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

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

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

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 have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.