God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.

Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.

Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!