O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

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

Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.

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

The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.