If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once, and attentively, to what it teaches.
Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.
We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedly removed from us.
Seek holiness rather than consolation.
It is the best thing for a stricken heart to be helping others.
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be any thing but a cup of salvation?
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upward when they are most burdened.
What He tells thee in the darkness,
Weary watcher for the day,
Grateful lip and heart should utter
When the shadows flee away.
As sure as God ever puts His children into the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.
