Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

May your convictions be deep, your love real, and your desires earnest

You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.

No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.

Trust Christ, but do not trust yourself

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.