Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.

The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.

You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using some human instrument.

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.