Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
