Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

Self-righteousness exclaims, "I will not be saved in God's way; I will make a new road to heaven; I will not bow before God's grace; I will not accept the atonement which God has wrought out in the person of Jesus; I will be my own redeemer; I will enter heaven by my own strength, and glorify my own merits." The Lord is very wroth against self-righteousness. I do not know of anything against which His fury burneth more than against this, because this touches Him in a very tender point, it insults the glory and honor of His Son Jesus Christ.

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.