Blessed be the discipline which makes me reach out my soul's roots into closer union with Jesus! Blessed be the dews of the Spirit which keep my leaf ever green! Blessed be the trials which shake down the ripe, golden fruits from the branches.

Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting under a new leader. Conversion is a revolutionary process.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

Seek for a fresh invoice of grace. Unbelief can scoff or growl; faith is the nightingale that sings in the darkest hour. Faith can draw honey out of the rock and oil out of the flint. With Christ in possession and heaven in reversion, it marches to the time of the One-hundred-and-third Psalm over the roughest road, and against the most cutting blast.

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.