...revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.