Faith Makes All Evil Good To Us,

An Idle Man Has A Constant Tendency To Torpidity. He Has Adopted The Indian Maxim That It Is Better To Walk Than To Run, And Better To Stand Than To Walk, And Better To Sit Than To Stand, And Better To Lie Than To Sit. He Hugs Himself Into The Notion, That God Calls Him To Be Quiet.

I Could Write Down Twenty Cases Wherein I Wished That God Had Done Otherwise Than He Did, But Which I Now See, If I Had Had My Own Way, Would Have Led To Extensive Mischief.

Self-will So Ardent And Active That It Will Break A World To Pieces To Make A Stool To Sit On.

When A Founder Has Cast A Bell He Does Not Presently Fix It In The Steeple, But Tries It With His Hammer, And Beats It On Every Side To See If There Be Any Flaw In It. So Christ Doth Not Presently After He Hath Converted A Man, Convey Him To Heaven; But Suffers Him First To Be Beaten Upon By Many Temptations And Then Exalts Him To His Crown.

Providence Is A Greater Mystery Than Revelation.