You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. - Adoniram Judson Gordon

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart — this is what is needed.