It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?