God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.