The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by 20 books he has merely skimmed.

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.