“Prophets often foretold destruction and sometimes the destruction did not come, yet this did not disprove their divine mission, as in the case of Jonah. For God is gracious, and ready to turn away his wrath from those who turn away from their sins. But the prophet who prophesied peace and prosperity absolutely and unconditionally without adding the necessary proviso, that they do not by willful sin put a bar in their own door and stop the coming of God's favors, will be proved a true prophet only by the accomplishment of his prediction.”

“If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.”

“The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confusion of all those that make a jest of his threatenings. Let them not be deceived, God is not mocked.”

“Prayer is a salve for every sore, even the sorest, a remedy for every malady, even the most grievous.”

“Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes”

“Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.”

“Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.”

“As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.”

“After a storm comes a calm.”

“He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.”

“None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.”