It was well to be Martha and serve, but better to be Lazarus and commune.

See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.

The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.