It Is Not By Telling People About

True Virtue Never Appears So Lovely As When It Is Most Oppressed; And The Divine Excellency Of Real Christianity Is Never Exhibited With Such Advantage As When Under The Greatest Trials; Then It Is That True Faith Appears Much More Precious Than Gold, And Upon This Account Is "found To Praise And Honour And Glory.

If I Murmur In The Least At Affliction, If I Am In Any Way Uncharitable, If I Revenge My Own Case, If I Do Anything Purely To Please Myself Or Omit Anything Because It Is A Great Denial, If I Trust Myself, If I Take Any Praise For Any Good Which Christ Does By Me, Or If I Am In Any Way Proud, I Shall Act As My Own And Not God’s.

Teachers And Learners Are Correlates, One Of Which Was Never Intended To Be Without The Other.

Surely There Is Something In The Unruffled Calm Of Nature That Overawes Our Little Anxieties And Doubts; The Sight Of The Deep-blue Sky And The Clustering Stars Above Seems To Impart A Quiet To The Mind.

The Wrath Of God Burns Against Them, Their Damnation Does Not Slumber; The Pit Is Prepared, The Fire Is Made Ready, The Furnace Is Now Hot, Ready To Receive Them; The Flames Do Now Rage And Glow.