Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.

Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.