Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

Men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness would rob us of what is noble and bold and manlike. O that all would believe that this is the nobility of the kingdom of heaven, that this is the royal spirit that the King of heaven displayed, that this is Godlike, to humble oneself, to become the servant of all!

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.