Prayer is the best response to hatred.

We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.