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

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

They lose nothing who gain Christ.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.

Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.

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