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You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ.

    Topics: Faith, The Cross, Comfort

Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God; hence I infer that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.

    Topics: Faith, Disappointment, Providence

Of all created comforts, God is the leader; you are the borrower, not the owner.

    Topics: God, Comfort

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.

    Topics: Grace

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

    Topics: Grace

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

    Topics: Heaven, Laziness

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

    Topics: Heaven

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

    Topics: Heaven

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.

    Topics: Heaven

Oh, thrice fools are we, who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle, know not that there is a kingdom before them; then, let our Lord's sweet hand square us, and hammer us, and strike off the knots of pride, self-love, and world-worship, and infidelity, that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.

    Topics: Heaven, Foolishness, Self-love

I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.

    Topics: Humility
    Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury

O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

    Topics: Inspiration, Heaven

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