With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which, going out of your sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere: ye see her not yet, she doth shine in another country.

It is our Lord's wisdom, that His kirk should ever hang by a thread; and yet the thread breaketh not, being hanged upon Him who is the sure Nail in David's house (Isa. xxii. 23), upon whom all the vessels, great and small, do hang; and the Nail (God be thanked) neither crooketh nor can be broken. Jesus,

If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.

I verily judge, we know not how much may be had in this life: there is yet something beyond all we see, that seeking would light upon.

Faith is exceeding charitable, and believeth no evil of God.

In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.

We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.