The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

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."

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous as the man who will not believe in the Bible? He swallows a ton of difficulties, and yet complains that we have swallowed an ounce of them. He has much more need of faith of a certain sort than we have, for skepticism has far harder problems than faith.