It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.