Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.

When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

Giving is true loving.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.