Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Expect great things from God, receive great things from God. Expect little from God, receive little from God.

There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

Those who would be employed in propagating the Gospel should be familiar with the doctrines he is to combat and the doctrines he is to teach, and acquire a complete knowledge both of the Sacred Scriptures and of these philosophical and mythological dogmas which form the souls of the Buddhist and Hindu Systems.

The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.