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

No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

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