Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed..

Nothing can separate you from His love, absolutely nothing, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, n….

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray..

I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?.

Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable..

You have trusted Him as your dying Savior; now trust Him as your living Savior. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment did He ….

Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere th….

The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible b….

Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God..

The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now..

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good..

To sum it all up, then, what is needed for happy and effectual service is simply to put your work into the Lord's hands, and leave it there. Do not t….

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there..

The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the u….

My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country t….

Sarah, I want to ask thee a solemn question. Did thee ever one single time have thy Bank book balance and thy own check book balance agree exactly? D….

Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could thin….

To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active ….

I do not find that I feel myself to be any different as an English subject than as an American. I have not the vote in either place, so I am not a ci….

I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings..

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd..