Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you

God's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

As long as a man is persuaded that he can make even the smallest contribution to his salvation, he remains self-confident and does not utterly despair of himself, and so is not humbled before God. Such a man plans out for himself a position, an occasion, a work, which shall bring him final salvation, but which will not.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.