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

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.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.

The goal of prayer is the ear of God.

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

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.