Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.