Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.