But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.