Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

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

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

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.

God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.