When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

We must remember that the GOAL of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained, the prayer has utterly failed. The uttering of it may have kindled devotional feeling in our minds, the hearing of it may have comforted and strengthened the hearts of those with whom we have prayed, but if the prayer has not gained the heart of God, it has failed in its essential purpose.

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.