The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.