You will never find in Jesus, an ear which has grown heavy, an arm shortened, or a heart that has grown cold toward us; much as we have had to learn our own hearts.
If I cannot trust God to make Me happy by doing His will, I will try and make myself happy by doing my own.
If you take the world, you must take the enmity against God along with it; for the friendship of the world is enmity against Him. Are you going to have this world from Satan, or the other world from Christ?
We need to have perfect confidence in God to dare to obey in this world.
If Christ be the husband’s delight, the wife will seek to please him with Christ, and not with the things of the world. With Christ she would comfort him when he came home; otherwise it would be but dragging him down.