Great Throughts Treasury

"It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house."

"Like a fool as I was, I suffered my sun to be high in the heavens and near afternoon before I ever took the gate by the end."

"My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love."

"Since He looked upon me, my heart is not my own. He hath run away to heaven with it."

"It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us."

"The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower"

"The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily."

"The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep."

"Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work."

"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."

"When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore ot glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, " If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory.""

"When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth."

"Ye and I might meet with joy up in the rainbow."