It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

The greatest value in trouble comes to those who bow lowest before the throne.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.