O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

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

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

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.