Eloquence Is Vehement Simplicity.

We Are Urgent About The Body; He Is About The Soul. We Call For Present Comforts; He Considers Our Everlasting Rest. And Therefore When He Sends Not The Very Things We Ask, He Hears Us By Sending Greater Than We Can Ask Or Think.

In The Midst Of Sorrow, Faith Draws The Sting Out Of Every Trouble, And Takes Out The Bitterness From Every Affliction.

God's Way Of Answering The Christian's Prayer For More Patience, Experience, Hope And Love Often Is To Put Him Into The Furnace Of Affliction.

Every Man Will Have His Own Criterion In Forming His Judgment Of Others. I Depend Very Much On The Effect Of Affliction. I Consider How A Man Comes Out Of The Furnace; Gold Will Lie For A Month In The Furnace Without Losing A Grain.

Philosophy Is A Proud, Sullen Detector Of The Poverty And Misery Of Man. It May Turn Him From The World With A Proud, Sturdy Contempt; But It Cannot Come Forward And Say, Here Are Rest, Grace, Pardon, Peace, Strength, And Consolation.