Birth: 1848 Death: 1921
The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master..
We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer..
Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with our soul as it is, and with our Saviour as He is; to face….
If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us..
The local church is the outcrop of the church universal..
Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation..
Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into….
The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its t….
It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him..
People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a contract; b….
The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's ….
It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not..
To have no loyalty is to have no dignity, and in the end, no manhood..
All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure..
The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men..
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is….
Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle agains….
Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us..