Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.

I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.

Rose early to seek God and found Him whom my soul loveth. Who would not rise early to meet such company?

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.