Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.