It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian. —Thomas Brooks

"Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the LORD, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life." ~ JEREMIAH 45:5 (NKJV)

Look around in the world, and you may see some in every place who are objects of pity, bereaved by sad accidents of all the comforts of life, while in the meantime Providence has tenderly preserved you. —John Flavel

So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting," ~ MARK 9:29 (NKJV)

Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of GOD with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to Him of our sense of the need. - Arthur W. Pink

"As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of GOD." ~ 1 PETER 4:10 (NKJV)

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant. —Thomas Brooks