Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.Collection: Strength
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.Collection: Wisdom
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.Collection: Inspirational
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.Collection: Failure
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.Collection: Success
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.Collection: Failure
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
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.
There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
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.
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.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.