It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.
In proportion as we "grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ," we shall grow in the desire that the Redeemer's sovereignty may be more widely and visibly extended.
There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
All growth that is not towards God is growing to decay.
