Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!

Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.

We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.

The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.