My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.