May We Sit At The Foot Of

May We Sit At The Foot Of The Cross; And There Learn What Sin Has Done, What Justice Has Done, What Love Has Done.

How Many Times Has He Delivered Me! Yet, Alas! How Distrustful And Ungrateful Is My Heart Even Until The Present!

I Know Not A Better Rule Of Reading The Scripture, Than To Read It Through From Beginning To End And When We Have Finished It Once, To Begin It Again. We Shall Meet With Many Passages Which We Can Make Little Improvement Of, But Not So Many In The Second Reading As In The First, And Fewer In The Third Than In The Second: Provided We Pray To Him Who Has The Keys To Open Our Understandings, And To Anoint Our Eyes With His Spiritual Ointment.

Our Work Is Great; Our Time Is Short; The Consequences Of Our Labors Are Infinite.

God Often Takes A Course For Accomplishing His Purposes Directly Contrary To What Our Narrow Views Would Prescribe. He Brings A Death Upon Our Feelings, Wishes, And Prospects When He Is About To Give Us The Desire Of Our Hearts.