God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

Thanks be to God, not--only for 'rivers of endless joys above, but for 'rills of comfort here below.'

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.

Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.