"Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight."

"All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test-if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit."

"Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still."

"It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic."

"If thou rememberest that thou art going to heaven, thou wilt not sleep on the road. If thou thinkest that hell is behind thee, and the devil pursuing thee, thou wilt not loiter."

"My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful."

"It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores."

"Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord."

"Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength."

"You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God."

"The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it."

"Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature."

"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

"Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice."

"Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually."

"The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden Himself, and all the world was black to you; or it was night, and since the bright and morning star was gone, no other star could yield you so much as a ray of light. What a howling wilderness is this world without our Lord! If once He hideth Himself from us, withered are the flowers of our garden; our pleasant fruits decay; the birds suspend their songs, and a tempest overturns our hopes."

"Remember, you are not sent to whiten tombs, but to open them."

"Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires."

"Be interested yourself, and you will interest others."

"You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright."

"My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service."

"A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will."

"Zeal is more often checked after long years in the same service than when novelty gives a charm to our work."

"We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere."

"Do you reckon to win the everlasting laurels without a conflict?"

"No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God's strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through."

"O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life."

"A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty."

"Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks."

"Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness and of His truth, as much a proof of His faithfulness and veracity, as the lives of any of the saints who have gone before? We do our Lord an injustice when we suppose that He wrought all His mighty acts, and showed Himself strong for those in the early time, but doth not perform wonders or lay bare His arm for the saints who are now upon the earth."

"If we would remember that all the trees of earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them."

"Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God."

"Brother, if any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him. For you are worse than he thinks you to be. If he charges you falsely on some point, yet be satisfied, for if he knew you better he might change the accusation and you would be no gainer by the correction.If you have your moral portrait painted and it is ugly, be satisfied. For it only needs a few blacker touches and it would be still nearer the truth. "I will be base in my own sight. This was well said. Perhaps if David had carried it out more fully and had been rendered watchful thereby, it might have saved him from his great fall. A sense of electing love will render you base in your own sight."

"To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus."

"A daily portion is all that a man really wants. We do not need tomorrow's supplies; that day has not yet dawned, and its wants are as yet unborn. The thirst which we may suffer in the month of June does not need to be quenched in February, for we do not feel it yet; if we have enough for each day as the days arrive we shall never know want."

"If a man were to sow a field, he could not excuse his neglect by saying that it would be useless to sow unless God caused the seed to grow. He would not be justified in neglecting tillage because the secret energy of God alone can create a harvest. No one is hindered in the ordinary pursuits of life by the fact that unless the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it."

"Although the author dealt some of John Bunyan's conclusions in spiritualizing the details of Solomon's Temple, he attributes to Bunyan a "consecrated ingenuity"."

"If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him."

"Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths."

"God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: He loves her with all His infinite heart. Therefore let her sons be of good courage, she cannot be far from prosperity."

"The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul."

"I serve," should be the motto of all the princes of the royal family of heaven."

"It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion."

"No dependence can be placed upon our natural qualities, or our spiritual attainments; but God abideth faithful. He is faithful in His love; He knows no variableness, neither shadow of turning. He is faithful to His purpose; He doth not begin a work and then leave it undone. He is faithful to His relationships; as a Father He will not renounce His children, as a friend He will not deny His people, as a Creator He will not forsake the work of His own hands."

"There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions."

"When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come."

"Faith is as precious to die by as it is to live by."

"The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way."

"I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others."

"Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory."