You have a difficult road before you: Make sure, pilgrim, that you do not go without your guide. You have to pass through the fiery furnace; do not enter unless, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you have the Son of God to be your companion.

Dark clouds distil bright drops, and black earth grows lovely flowers. A vein of good is to be found in every mine of evil.

Christian, do not mix your wine with water; do not tarnish the gold of faith with the dross of human confidence. Wait only upon God, and let your expectation be from Him.

If we forget to live at the foot of the cross in the deepest lowliness of spirit, God will not forget to discipline us for our good. A destruction will come to you, O unduly exalted believer, the destruction of your joys and of your comforts, although there can be no destruction of your soul.

When my prayers cease, my eye of faith will grow dim. Much in prayer, much in heaven; slow in prayer, slow in progress.

In matters of grace, we all have Benjamin’s portion—we all have ten times more than we could have expected, and though our necessities are great, yet are we often amazed at the marvellous fullness of grace that God gives us richly to enjoy.

As the Spirit of God descended upon the Lord Jesus, the head, so He also, in measure, descends upon the members of the mystical body.

Believer, have you not found a sore famine in the occasion of plenty if your Lord has been absent? The sun was shining, but Christ had hidden Himself, and all the world was dark to you, or it was night, and since the bright and morning star was gone, no other star could yield you so much as a ray of light.

It is better to have God as your guardian than the Bank of England for your possession. You might spend the wealth of the nations, but you can never exhaust the infinite mercies of God.

The Lord Jesus had purposes for His people as their representative before the throne, long before they appeared upon the stage of time. It was “from ancient days” that He signed the contract with His Father that He would pay blood for blood, suffering for suffering, agony for agony, and death for death on behalf of His people; it was “from ancient days” that He gave Himself up without a murmuring word.