The Christian shall gain that which he cannot lose--by parting with that which he cannot keep.
Jesus is the fountain, ocean, and center of all delights and joys!
Out of Christ's condemnation flows our justification! Out of His agony comes our victory! Out of His pain comes our ease! Out of His stripes comes our healing! Out of His gall and vinegar comes our honey! Out of His curse comes our blessing! Out of His crown of thorns comes our crown of glory! Out of His death comes our life! O what a melting consideration is this!
Christ is not sweet until sin is made bitter to us!
If God should damn you to all eternity, your eternal sufferings could not satisfy for the evil that is in one vain thought! O the depth of the evil of sin!
Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.
Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three; your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, so he will not forsake you because you are low.
A bad heart and a slippery memory deprive men of the comfort of many mercies, and defraud God of the glory due for them.
It is a good sign that our troubles are sanctified to us when they turn our hearts against sin, and not against God.
He embraces all things that are lovely: he seals up the sum of all loveliness. Things that shine as single stars with a particular glory, all meet in Christ as a glorious constellation.
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
[John Flavel]
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