Men do lop the branches off their trees round about, to the end they may grow up high and tall. The Lord hath this way lopped your branch, in taking from you many children, to the end ye should grow upward, like one of the Lord's cedars.The Loveliness of Christ
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.George Muller of Bristol by A.T. Pierson, 1899