Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles.

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.