One cold night they were sitting before the fire, where pine logs were hissing and spitting as they were burnt away. Churchill watched the blaze in silence. Then he growled: "I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed."- John Gray, Churchill, chance and the 'black dog', http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15033046

God having forgiven sin, he will no longer call it to remembrance (Jer. 31:34)The Lord will make an act of indemnity. He will not upbraid us with former unkindness, nor sue us with a cancelled bond. 'He will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea' (Mic. 7:19). Sin shall not be cast in like cork which rises up again, but like lead which sinks to the bottom. How we should all labour for this covenant blessing!~Thomas Watson, The Godly Man's Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 9.

We must not conceal from ourselves that true Christianity
brings with it a daily cross in this life, while it offers us a
crown of glory in the life to come. The flesh must be daily
crucified. The devil must be daily resisted. The world must be
daily overcome. There is a warfare to be waged, and a battle to
be fought. All this is the inseparable accompaniment of true
religion. Heaven is not to be won without it. Never was there a
truer word than the old saying, "No cross, no crown!" If we
never found this out by experience, our souls are in a poor
condition. - J. C. Ryle (1816-1900), Expository thoughts on the Gospels, with the text complete, St. Matthew,Ipswitch: William Hunt, 1856, p. 202

Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction. - Thomas Fuller, 1608 - 1661

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which , in fact, never existed.- Robert F. Kennedy, 1925 - 1968