A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.

The Christian who keeps his heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls.

Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.