Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

May every one of us believe Him better, and have greater thoughts of Him, and never let us be guilty henceforth of confining, as it were, within iron bonds the limitless One of Israel.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

As for His failing you, never dream of it -- hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.