Thoughts

I should not expect if I were a member of a commercial firm, to take half the profits, and to do none of the work...

Surely if a man is going in the wrong way, and God turns his feet back and sets him in the right way, a blessing has come to him...

So often weak faith is moved from its steadfastness, by trials. People say, "God cannot love me—or he would not send this affliction upon me!"...

There can be no comparison between a soaring seraph and a crawling worm. Christian men ought so to live that it were idle to speak of a comparison between them and the men of the world...

The Holy Spirit declares that God's elect, once they are called and converted by His sovereign grace, are made to be a "peculiar people"...

We should be ready, without bravado, modestly and humbly—yet boldly, to admit that we are Christians...

Others may have injured or grieved us in some way, and we may not be ready to forgive them. But while we feel so, we are shutting out divine blessing from ourselves...

We cannot do what we desire to do. Many of our purposes are thwarted...

On weary paths of earth where we toil in search of supposed blessings, we are really rising step by step on invisible stairs, and reaching blessings of which the earthly illusions were only pictures...

This we know, that God will care for us, and, caring for us, will fulfill his promises to us, and make all his goodness pass before us...