Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

Live in such a way that men may recognize that you have been with Jesus.

Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor feed his soul. Go where the gospel is preached, the gospel that really feeds your soul, and go often.