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

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.