Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.