In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

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

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

Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.

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

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

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.