“Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.”

Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus’ side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father’s sheltering throne.

One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus’ name.

Before we can speak God’s message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?

Difficulties and obstacles are God’s challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.

The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.

Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

And O! be sure to fear the Lord alway, And mind your duty, duly, morn and night; Lest in temptation’s path ye gang astray, Implore His counsel and assisting might: They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.

Let’s be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I’d read the ‘WSJ’ in the morning, and for years I have done that.

Holy charity confounds all diabolical and fleshly temptations and all fleshly fears.

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.