One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.

The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau.

it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them.

The author says the pastor who does not pray is a "mere official" who gets into his office by the necessity of the bread it provides.