If we don't come apart; we will come apart.

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.