It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.

Trust Christ, but do not trust yourself

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

And I will go as far as Martin Luther, in that strong assertion of his, where he says, "If any man ascribes any of salvation, even the very least, to the free-will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ aright."

The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul