Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.

We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him.

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

Faith creates nothing; it simply reckons upon that which is already there.