Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

Grace is free, but it's not cheap.

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

When busyness goes after joy, it goes after everyone's joy.

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.

Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.