I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~~William Penn

Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not

give fair names to foul sins; call them what you

will, they will smell no sweeter. -Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

_Morning And Evening_ ; "April 7, Evening"

Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that, and expect to suffer. -Spurgeon

The man who discovers that he can find no way out

may go into the pigsty and let every passion have

its way; but when a man has been gripped by purity

and has seen God if only for one minute, he may try

and live in a pigsty but he will find he cannot.

There is something that produces misery and longing

even while he lets loose his passion. -Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)

_Shade Of His Hand_ [1924]

Now there is no way of managing our souls in troubles and afflictions so that God is glorified and we ourselves spiritually strengthened but by the comforts of the Holy Spirit. All that Christ promised His disciples when He told them of the great troubles and persecutions they would have in the world is the Comforter. So Paul says, 'We glory in tribulations' (Rom. 5:3). But how can we do this? By the Holy Spirit pouring out the love of God in our hearts. So the believers are said receive the Word with affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit (1 Thess. 1:6). They are to 'take joyfully the spoiling of their goods.' All these we are enabled to do the glory of God by the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.- John Owen, Communion with God