Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition.

Communion is deeper than theology.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed. The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no supernatural power. A rationalized faith, a socialized Church and a moralized gospel may gain applause, but they awaken no conviction and win no converts.