I Am A Great Sinner And God

If Our Zeal Is Embittered By Expressions Of Anger, Invective, Or Scorn—we May Think We Are Doing Service Of The Cause Of Truth, When In Reality We Shall Only Bring It Into Discredit!

I Compare The Troubles Which We Have To Undergo In The Course Of The Year To A Great Bundle Of Sticks, Far Too Large For Us To Lift. But God Does Not Require Us To Carry The Whole At Once. He Mercifully Unties The Bundle, And Gives Us First One Stick, Which We Are To Carry Today, And Then Another, Which We Are To Carry Tomorrow, And So On. This We Might Easily Manage, If We Would Only Take The Burden Appointed For Us Each Day; But We Choose To Increase Our Troubles By Carrying Yesterday's Stick Over Again Today, And Adding Tomorrow's Burden To Our Load, Before We Are Required To Bear It.

God Works Powerfully, But For The Most Part Gently And Gradually.

When I Was Young, I Was Sure Of Many Things; Now There Are Only Two Things Of Which I Am Sure: One Is, That I Am A Miserable Sinner; And The Other, That Christ Is An All-sufficient Saviour. He Is Well-taught Who Learns These Two Lessons.

If It Were Possible For Me To Alter Any Part Of His Plan, I Could Only Spoil It.