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

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

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.