Occupation: Author Birth: 1859 Death: 1936
The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart..
Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sor….
If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, imp….
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed..
Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes. They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd….
God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession..
Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action..
It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still mo….
Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand..
Steadfastness, that is holding on; patience, that is holding back; expectancy, that is holding the face up; obedience, that is holding one's self in ….
The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, nor….
The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer..
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today ar….
Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch..
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life..
No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give..
Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit..
If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see..
The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray..
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray un….
Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God..