Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my heart or express my soul until it has also blended therewith the joyful nearness of that perfect love that casts out fear and ventures to speak with our Father in heaven as a child speaks with its father on earth. My brother, no veil remains.

"Stand still" - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.