Action that is clearly right needs no justification.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

The Bible doesn't explain everything necessary for our intellectual satisfaction, but it explains everything necessary for our obediance.

One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that.

Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.

Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.