God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: He loves her with all His infinite heart. Therefore, let her sons be of good courage; she cannot be far from prosperity to whom God speaks “gracious and comforting words.”

Jesus was a cross-bearer; He leads the way in the path of sorrow. Surely, you could not desire a better guide! And if He carried a cross, what nobler burden would you desire? The Via Crucis is the way of safety; fear not to tread its thorny paths.

A man who has a strong mind can bear to be insulted and only resents the wrong when a sense of right demands his action. The weak mind is irritated at a little; the strong mind bears it like a rock that doesn’t move though a thousand breakers dash upon it and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit.

You may force your way through anything with the leverage of prayer. Thoughts and reasoning are like the steel wedges that give a hold upon truth, but prayer is the lever that pries open the iron chest of sacred mystery so that we may get the treasure hidden inside.

A holy character does not prevent temptation—Jesus was tempted. Though you become greatly sanctified by the Holy Spirit, expect the great dog of hell will still bark at you.

As soon as a man finds Christ, he finds others. I will not believe you have tasted the honey of the Gospel if you can eat it all yourself. True grace puts an end to all spiritual monopoly.

FEBRUARY 18 Father, I have sinned.(Luke 15:18) Certainly, those whom Christ has washed in His precious blood need not confess their sins as culprits or criminals before God the Judge because Christ has forever taken away all their sins in a legal sense so that they no longer stand where they can be condemned but…

The saints are God’s heritage; He is among them and will protect His own. This assurance grants us comfort in our troubles and spiritual conflicts. We are constantly opposed and yet perpetually preserved!

The church will never prosper until it more reverently believes in the Holy Spirit. He is so good and kind that it is sad indeed that He should be grieved by slights and negligences.

When you rest in Him, you not only receive but also give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His beauty, you not only obtain comfort but impart delight.