To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.