Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.

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

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.

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