Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

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

Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.