Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did foresee that such persons would believe, and therefore did choose them; so they would make the business of salvation to depend upon something in us. Whereas God does not choose us FOR faith, but TO faith. "He hath chosen us, that we should be holy" (Eph. 1:4), not because we would be holy, but that we might be holy. We are elected to boldness, not for it.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.