Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only.

We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.

Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.