O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?

I have a high priest in heaven

If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.

My people's greatest need is my personal holiness

Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.

A beam of God's countenance is enough to fill the heart of a believer to overflowing. It is enough to light up the pale cheek of a dying saint with seraphic brightness, and make the heart of the lone widow sing for joy.