So if she left you because you suck, she still did you a favor." "How is that?" "Because no one is happy living in a sick relationship, whether they're the weak link or the strong one. And if you're the weak link, this is your chance to learn that." "What are you, a marriage counselor?" "No. I'm a weak link.

Because even that little boy knows that love can't be earned. The only true love is grace. All else is a counterfeit.

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

The most amazing fact about Jesus, unlike almost any other religious founder, is that he found God in disorder and imperfection—and told us that we must do the same or we would never be content on this earth.

From our own strength we cannot bear the least trouble, but by the Spirit's assistance we can bear the greatest.

nothing in the world of so good use, as the least dram of grace.

Nay, [2] after conversion we need bruising, that (1) reeds may know themselves to be reeds, and not oaks; even reeds need bruising, by reason of the remainder of pride in our nature, and to let us see that we live by mercy. And (2) that weaker Christians may not be too much discouraged when they see the stronger shaken and bruised.

When blindness and boldness, ignorance and arrogance, weakness and willfulness, meet together in men, it renders them odious to God, burdensome in society, dangerous in their counsels, disturbers of better purposes, intractable and incapable of better direction, miserable in the issue. Where Christ shows his gracious power in weakness, he does it by letting men understand themselves so far as to breed humility, and magnify God's love to such as they are.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

Two things trouble the peace of Christians very much (1), their weaknesses hanging upon them, and (2) fear of holding out for time to come.

A weak hand may receive a rich jewel. A few grapes will show that the plant is a vine, and not a thorn. It is one thing to be deficient in grace, and another thing to lack grace altogether. God knows we have nothing of ourselves

God often delights to take advantage of our averseness, that he may manifest his work the more clearly, and that all the glory of the work may be his, as all the strength is his.