The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.

If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.

He who sings a song to Christ in the night, sings the best song in all the world; for he sings from the heart.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

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