As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only.

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we 'being in the way,' the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us.