We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

The main thing is this: we should never blame anyone or anything for our defeats. No matter how evil their intentions may be, they are altogether unable to harm us until we begin to blame them and use them as excuses for our own unbelief.

Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the human heart may begin so modestly as to be hardly perceptible and go on to become a raging torrent that sweeps its possessor before it in total helplessness.