I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men. This is such a common truth that one hesitates to mention it, yet it appears to have been overlooked by the majority of Christians today.

In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.