Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.

All is loss that comes between us and Christ.

I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home.

To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.