Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.
I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.
Whom should we love, if not Him who loved us, and gave himself for us?
How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess! We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness. But not for works which we have done, or shall hereafter do, hath God decreed on sinful men salvation to bestow.
Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling
Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.