The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.

Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.