The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.

I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart.

The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.