When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.

Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved