I am weak, stammering, and have much to learn, but I know my God is using me, for I have given myself into His hands, and I am willing to be anything for Him. I do not mind whatever He has for me to do; though my work is feeble and I sometimes feel ashamed of it, I have put myself into God's hands as an instrument for Him to use.

When feeling says, 'In myself, I am sinful; I am dark; I am weak; I am poor; I am sad;' let faith say. 'In Christ, I am holy; I am light; I am strong; I am rich; I am joyful.

And again, alas! for how many Christians there are for whom, when the word is heard, it has but little attraction, because it has never yet been shown to them as a life that is indeed possible, and unutterably blessed.

I need a divine omnipotence to work it in me. And that is what the apostle Paul teaches in Philippians 2:13: "It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

The weakness of your Christian life is that you want to work it out partly, and to let God help you.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

ADAMANT  (A'DAMANT)   n.s.[adamas, Lat. from Gr. that is, insuperable, infrangible.]1. A stone, imagined by writers, of impenetrable hardness. So great a fear my name amongst them

Self-confidence if the first requisite to great unertakings. - On Alexander Pope

ALTERNATIVE  (ALTE'RNATIVE)   n.s.[alternatif, Fr.]The choice given of two things; so that if one be rejected, the other must be taken.

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?