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

There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

You have no time for the prayer meeting, but you have time enough to be brushing your hair to all eternity; you have no time to bend your knee, but plenty of time to make yourselves look smart and grand.

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.