It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie.

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

God be thanked when the Law so works as to take off the sinner from all confidence in himself! To make the leper confess that he is incurable is going a great way toward compelling him to go to that divine Savior, who alone is able to heal him. This is the whole end of the Law toward men whom God will save.

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.