For a saint to have solitude is of the deepest importance, because it is then the heart renews its acquaintance with the Lord Jesus who only has entrance into our most solitary retreats...

More and more I am made to feel that Christ does not have His proper place among the children of God. Something beside Christ is their object — a doctrine, a dogma, a party, a denomination, or their experience ...

It must have a very evil influence among the saints when a servant acts so as to set himself up by putting others down, while all the time he is preaching in the highest strain of Christ-exaltation...

I remember when a boy, I used to go to a certain school in New England, where we had a quick-tempered master, who always kept a rattan. It was, "If you don't do this, and don't do that, I'll punish you."...

Mr. John Wannamaker, superintendent of probably one of the largest Sunday schools in the world, had a theory that he would never put a boy out of his school for bad conduct...

J. N. was drawn to confess publicly that Christ was his Savior. He did this in the face of the bitterest opposition of a widowed mother and relations. Then they tried a more subtle plan: they began to please him...