You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned winging its solitary and hopeless flight, the raven of his anxious thoughts, and finds no place to rest, and comes back again to the desolate ark with its foreboding croak of evil in the present and evil in the future.

That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.