My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

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

Grace grows best in winter.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

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.

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

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.