Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes - that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens - that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their course. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebush is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence - the fall of...leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the jewels that shall be His best adornment.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.