Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.
Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.
Now' is the watchword of the wise.
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.
Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.
You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.
Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.
I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!