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

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

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

Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.