If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.