If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord’s example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility is enormous. Their strength is small. Let us see that we support them, and hold up their hands by our prayers.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

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 resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

Never be satisfied with the world's standard of Christianity!

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.