Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

He (God) loves what I shall be.