If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
Every thing that is done in the world is done by hope.
He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Christian life consists in faith and charity.
Some plague the people with too long sermons for the faculty of listening is a tender thing and soon becomes weary and satiated.
Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from...