What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.

Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.