Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.

The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

if we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater.

Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were of no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer...