Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.