Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.

Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves.

It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.

Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.