Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?

I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart.

You can recollect the sayings of great men, you treasure up verse of renowned poets; ought you not be equally profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty or overthrow a doubt?

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory."