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

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

Christ has no velvet crosses.

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

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