Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer that finds its way to God. No prayer ever reaches God's heart which does not come from our hearts.

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

Our joy ends where love of the world begins.