If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.
The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.
Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.
Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.
We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.
He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.
He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.
Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.
Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.
It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.
To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.
There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.