May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.

Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

They that die by famine die by inches.

See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the world. The most important part of the business lies between God and our own souls, in the frame of our spirits and the working of our hearts, in our actions that no eye sees except the all-seeing God. Justly are the saints called God's hidden ones, and His secret is said to be with them. They have meat to eat and work to do that the world does not know of, as well as joys, griefs, and cares that a stranger does not share.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.