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

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.

When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.

The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.