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

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

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.

Grace grows best in winter.

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.