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.

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me.

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.