The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.

Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.

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?

We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.