The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself — are identical. - Alexander Maclaren

Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountain-side with its thick-ribbed ice.

Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.

If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.