None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."

If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.