When a man loses heart, he loses everything. To keep one’s heart in the midst of life’s stream and to maintain an undiscourageable front in the face of its difficulties is not an achievement that springs from anything that a laboratory can demonstrate or that logic can affirm. It is an achievement of faith.

If you lose your sky, you will soon lose your earth.

From under the juniper tree Elijah is called into an audience with the King of Kings. While listening to his own defeated wail, the accents of the still small Voice fall upon his weary ear. God refused him his unworthy request; rested him from his service; reminded him that he was still needed; and returned him to his work. He thought his work was done and that life had left him in the shadows. God says: “No, I am commissioning you to go forth and anoint kings and prophets, and climax the service of other days.”

Not till His hour strikes is our day done; as long as we live, we serve the King!

The tempter is always ready to take advantage of a time of weariness and reaction.

He loves to fish in troubled waters.

Juniper trees make poor sanctuaries.

It is good to have things settled by faith, before they are unsettled by feeling.