I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to our load, before we are required to bear it.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.