The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.

There are no crown-wearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.