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.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
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.
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
