Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd. The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He walks in his own shoes.

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.

Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.

Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.

It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.