Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh, for more prayer, more constant, incessant prayer! Then the blessing would rain upon us.

Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.

God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.