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

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart.

You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.