Do not let us fail one another in interest, care and practical help; but supremely we must not fail one another in prayer.-Michael Baughen

God takes life’s pieces and gives us unbroken peace.-W. D. Gough

Would you have perfect peace in life? Then lay hold on this doctrine of perseverance. Your TRIALS may be many and great. Your cross may be very heavy. But the business of your soul is all conducted according to an "everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure." (2 Sam. 23:5.) All things are working together for your good. Your sorrows are only purifying your soul for glory. Your bereavements are only fashioning you as a polished stone for the temple above, made without hands. From whatever quarter the storms blow, they only drive you nearer to heaven. Whatever weather you may go through it is only ripening you for the garner of God. Your best things are quite safe. Come what will, you shall "never perish.~ J.C. Ryle, Old Paths, “Perseverance”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1999], 516, 517.

Christian leadership models itself upon our Lord Jesus Christ. One of the paradoxes of His ministry was that although He was so obviously the leader, He was conspicuously the servant. He illustrated and underlined this truth when He washed the disciples’ feet (John 13). We are spiritually effective as leaders as we follow His example. Although leaders, we are first and foremost servants.- Derek Prime and Alistair Begg, On Being a Pastor, Moody Press, 2004, p. 219.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him, not the storm without.- Ralph Waldo Emerson