Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does not become corrupt.

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure?