Grace puts its hand on the boasting mouth, and shuts it once for all.
Jesus has made the life of his people as eternal as his own.
The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.