We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

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

If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy.

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

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

[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the Word preached more than the loss of peace and trade? Is it the removal of the ark that troubles us? Again, do we attend to the Word with reverential devotion? When the judge is giving the charge on the bench, all attend. When the Word is preached, the great God is giving us his charge. Do we listen to it as to a matter of life and death? This is a good sign that we love the Word.