People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

The best of men are men at best

Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.