“When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.”

“When Death to either shall come—I pray it be first to me.”

“... we did decide to trust Christ, but the reason we made that decision is that God had first made us spiritually alive. ... God comes to us when we're spiritually dead, when we don't even realize our condition, and gives us the spiritual ability to see our plight and to see the solution in Christ. God comes all the way, not partway, to meet us in our need. When we were dead, He made us alive in Christ. And the first act of that new life is to turn in faith to Jesus.”

“Weep not today: why should this sadness be?Learn in present fearsTo o'ermaster those tearsThat unhindered conquer thee.”

“When we believe something, we act as if it is true.”

“We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.”

“We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.”