Nothing can render affliction so heavy as the load of sin; would ye therefore be fitted for afflictions, be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what afflictions soever you meet with, will be very easy to you.
If thou canst bear the rod of affliction which God shall lay upon thee, remember this lesson, thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.
The Lord useth his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
The school of the cross is the school of light; it discovers the world's vanity, baseness, and wickedness, and lets us see more of God's mind. Out of dark affliction comes a spiritual light.
A returning penitent, though formerly bad as the worst of men, may by grace become as good as the best.
Your intentions of repentance, and the neglect of that soul-saving duty, will rise up in judgment against you.
Repentance carries with it a Divine rhetoric, and persuades Christ to forgive multitudes of sins committed against him.
Say not to thyself, to-morrow I will repent; for it is thy duty to do it daily.
To be truly sensible for sin, is to sorrow for displeasing of God: to be afflicted, that he is displeased by us more than he is displeased with us.—Bunyan