We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.