As God can make a straight line with a crooked stick, so can He be righteous when He uses wicked instruments.
God has a design in suffering Satan to trounce some of His saints by temptation, to train them up in a fitness to succour their fellow-brethren in the like condition.
What did Satan get by all his pains upon Job, but to let that holy man know how much God loved him?
Unbelief fears Satan as a lion — faith treads on him as a worm.
Wolves may snarl at one another, yet are soon quiet, but the wolf and lamb, can never be made friends.
He that is not ashamed, has not the spirit of a man.
David says the mouth of the wicked is an open sepulchre, and in this grave many a saint’s name has been buried.
It is more honour to take one soul alive out of the devil’s clutches, than to leave many slain upon the field.