“It is most impossible that we should beseech mercy and grace, and not have it.”

Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.

The Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.

He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!

He [Jesus] did not say, ‘You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,’ but he did say, ‘You will never be overcome.

My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.

The Lord looks on his servants with pity and not with blame. In God’s sight we do not fall; in our sight, we do not stand. Both of these are true, but the deeper insight belongs to God.

For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.

Our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.

The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

In God’s sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother, Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living. Blessed may he be.

The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything. God is the ground, the substance, the teaching, the teacher, the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.

He said not ‘Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased’; but he said, ‘Thou shalt not be overcome.

Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.

God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.

Grace means you’re in a different universe from where you had been stuck, when you had absolutely no way to get there on your own.

Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.

Love slandered the heart, we fumbled gracefully, we fell in love with the end from the start.

Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

I stepped into love with grace. I stepped out of love with grace. The beginning was beautiful. The ending was beautiful.

You can’t resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.