Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.