When John Knox went upstairs to plead with God for Scotland, it was the greatest event in Scottish history. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

All that befalls us on our road to heaven is meant to befit us for our journey's end. Our way through the wilderness is meant to try us, and to prove us, that our evils may be discovered, repented of, and overcome, and that thus we may be without fault before the throne at the last. We are being educated for the skies, meetened for the assembly of the perfect. It doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we are struggling up towards it; and we know that when Jesus shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.