Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.

You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand.

We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.