Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

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

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.

To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.