The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.

Far be it for me to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic Christians within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views

The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet.