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Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Prayer is faith passing into action.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.

You can't revisit a place where you were happy,
as you can't re-love someone you've loved and left"
~from "Package Tour

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.