Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.

The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.

For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt to stand only on the defensive. They are too often content with answering this or that little objection, or discussing this or that little difficulty, which is picked out of Scripture and thrown in their teeth. I believe we ought to act on the aggressive far more than we do, and to press home on the adversaries of [Biblical] inspiration the enormous difficulties of their own position.

‎"A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle