Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him.

Love knows how to do without what it naturally wants. Love knows how to say, 'What does it matter.'

Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.

If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.

When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.