Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.