Birth: April 1, 1886 Death: July 15, 1952
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought..
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but ….
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God..
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them..
The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone..
The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the ….
Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. It is the outcom….
Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God's mercies..
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. ….
Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps thei….
Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is th….
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an indiv….
Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God..
Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with….
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught..
It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the….
Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet comp….
Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are. Instead of greedily d….
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors..
Love is the queen of all the Christain graces..
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour fro….