If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

If by excessive labor we die before reaching the average age of man, worn out in the Master's service, then glory be to God. We shall have so much less of earth and so much more of heaven. It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus.