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" If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. "

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" My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another. "

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" However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love. "

" What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet. "

" We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind. "

" May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary. "

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" In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then. "

" The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. "

" I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. "

" Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called. "

" 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. "

" If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. "

" I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever. "

" Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past. "

" It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. "

" There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell. "

" What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart. "

" Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality! "

" You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter. "

" 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none. "

" Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition. "

" Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity. "

" The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus. "

" In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith? "

" 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. "

" If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked. "

" As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly! "

" The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life. "

" There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description. "

" It is not well to make great changes in old age. "

" There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian. "