Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of that which is to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan. Our joy is yet to be revealed. I grant you that we have much thrown in, for the Lord is a good paymaster; but on the road to heaven he gives us only our spending money.

Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.