God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?

Preaching that costs nothing accomplishes nothing.

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.