The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.