"If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises."

"The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King."

"There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing."

"Often the work of the Lord itself may be a temptation to keep us from that communion with Him which is so essential to the benefit of our own souls."

"Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this."

"Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith."

"A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised."

"The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great."

"Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward."