Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

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

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.