The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a c….

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not….

Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God..

The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so muc….

Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. I….

True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in….

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it..

If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes..

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him..

As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of Go….

It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. ….

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickednes….

He who has the Holy Spirit in His heart and the Scripture in his hands has all he needs..

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise..

We must have the glory sink into us before it can be reflected from us. In deep inward beholding we must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine….

The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more than they read the Bible.….

Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins..

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust..

True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madnes….

Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present..

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side..