A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."

No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.