Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

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.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.