How incomprehensible is the love of God! His ways are indeed past finding out. How many of His providences are like the cloud between the Israelites and the Egyptians - if looked on by unbelievers, or without faith, it is a cloud of darkness; but if viewed according to the privilege of the Lord's people, it is no longer darkness, but light and safety. May this be your experience; may you feel that the Hand which inflicts the wound supplies the balm, and that He who has emptied your heart has filled the void with Himself.

I cannot tell how I am buffeted sometimes by temptation. I never knew how bad a heart I have. Yet I do know that I love God and love His work, and desire to serve him only and in all things. And I value above all else that precious Saviour in whom alone I can be accepted.

Envied by some, despised by many, hated by others, often blamed for things I never heard of or had nothing to do with...often sick in body as well as perplexed in mind and embarrassed by circumstances -- had not the Lord been specially gracious to me, had not my mind been sustained by the conviction that the work is His and that He is with me in what it is no empty figure to call "The thick of the conflict," I must have fainted or broken down. But the battle is the Lord's, and He will conquer. We may fail -- do fail continually -- but He never fails.

How often do we attempt work for God to the limit of our incompetency rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies.

I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God:
first, it is impossible,
then it is difficult,
then it is done..

~ James Hudson Taylor