Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.

Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.

Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.

Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.