There are three stages in the work of God: impossible, difficult,done.

So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.

Fruit-bearing involves cross-bearing. There are not two Christs--an easygoing one for easygoing Christians, and a suffering, toiling one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are you willing to abide in Him, and thus to bear much fruit?

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.

Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.

God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.