Jesus did not tell parables to confirm well-known truths, but rather to shatter well-known truths. - John Newton

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

everything is needful that he sends. nothing can be needful that he withholds