The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.