People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.