Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

The Kingdom of grace is nothing but.... the beginning of the Kingdom of glory; the Kingdom of grace is glory in the seed, and the Kingdom of glory is grace in the flower; the Kingdom ofgrace is glory in the daybreak, and the Kingdom of glory is grace in the full meridian; the Kingdom of grace is glory militant, and the Kingdom of glory is grace triumphant.... the Kingdom ofgrace leads to the Kingdom of glory.

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

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.