“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
—William Cowper

“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith,

and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.”

—George Mueller

“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much.

Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.”

—William Cowper

“In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.”
—John Bunyan

“If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah Home.” 

—John Newton

“It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man’s radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the Gospel.” 

—Paul Washer

“I have never met the man I could despair of 

after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.” 

—Oswald Chambers