So whether our message is welcomed or not, the fact remains we must go to all; and the worse they are and the harder they are, the more evident is it that, wanted or not, it is needed by them.

There are times when nothing holds the heart but a long, long look at Calvary. How very small anything that we are allowed to endure seems beside that Cross.

Praise Him who went before to search out a Resting-place. May it be a place of victory too, for His own glory’s sake.

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray – really pray, I mean – with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.

If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love...

The Calvinists illustrate their belief by a single illuminating word, Cat-hold, and the Arminians by another, Monkey-hold. Could you find better illustrations? The cat takes up the kitten and carries it in its mouth; the kitten is passive, the cat does everything. But the little monkey holds on to its mother, and clings with might and main. Those who have watched the “cat-hold” in the house, and the “monkey-hold” out in the jungle, can appreciate the accuracy of these two illustrations.

The vows of God are on me. I may not stay to play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers till I my work have done and rendered up account.

If I can write an unkind letter, speak an unkind work, think an unkind thought without grief and shame, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us – To will what God wills brings peace.

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse...