We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not Christian patience. But to humbly submit because it is the will of God to inflict the trial, to be silent because the sovereignty of God orders it - is true godly patience.

Frequently renew settled and holy resolutions. A soldier unresolved to fight may be easily defeated...The weakness of our graces, the strength of our temptations, and the diligence of our spiritual enemies, require strong resolutions.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Let us not satisfy ourselves with a knowledge of God in the mass; a glance upon a picture never directs you to the discerning the worth and art of it.

All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.