Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.

Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.