A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.

The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk.