Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

God enabled me to speak with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power.

Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that His Kingdom was not of this world; that His doctrine was a doctrine of the Cross; and that their professing themselves to be His followers, would call them to a constant state of voluntary suffering and self-denial.

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.