Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.

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.

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

Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do it?" for what he would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us.