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

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.

Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.

Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.