As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them.

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

Truly Jesus is the great need of our souls.

Not infrequently our GOD brings His people into difficulties on purpose that they may come to know Him as they could not otherwise do.

I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.