If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod

If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself; and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it for ever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it; for your God—your God—is what your soul craves after; then be of good courage, thou art a child of God.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.