Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.

The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure.

Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure

Faith has nothing to do with circumstances, it deals entirely with the Word of God.

It is such a comfort to drop the tangles of life into God's hands and leave them there.

Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.

We have so much patience with ourselves, why not borrow some of that and use it on others.