We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

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

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.

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.

If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!