By Alexander Whyte
When a petitioner is in dead earnest, he is not content with merely tabling his petition. He does not simply state his bare case, and then leave it to speak for itself.
Leave not thy place. Keep firm on thy knees. Go back a second and a third time.
The best bulwark of faith is a good and honest heart.
Every step you take out of an angry and wrathful heart, and out of a sour, sullen, and morose heart, and into a meek and peace-making heart; out of envy and uneasiness, and into admiration and honour: on the spot your heavenly Father will acknowledge and will reward you.
While how beautiful, and how like heaven itself, is a humble, a meek, a patient, and a Christ-like heart!
You are commanded to hope.
The Governor of heaven and earth is shut in with you, and you with Him; and be not in such a hurry to dismiss Him.
Acts, often repeated, gradually become habits, and habits, long enough continued, settle and harden into character.
A man’s character does not have its seat or source in his body; character is not a physical thing.
Prayer, at its best, is the noblest, the sublimest, the most magnificent, and stupendous act that any creature of God can perform on earth or in heaven.
Every new beginner in prayer looks upon every approaching time and place of temptation as a summons to make haste.
The world loves its own, that all men worship talent, while only one here and one there values moral character.
What a man loves, that that man is. What a man chooses out of a hundred offers, you are sure by that who and what that man is.
God’s truth and man’s goodness cannot dwell together in the same heart.
Weak, evil, and self-seeking men are near us, and we lean upon them, look to them, and listen to them.
Little prayer,—little faith,—little Christ in the heart. Increasing prayer,—increasing faith,—increasing Christ in the heart.
Nothing silences, and subdues, and sanctifies our passions but prayer.
Character comes up out of the will and out of the heart.
Exercise, then, intentionally and seriously and on system your faith every day.
Self-knowledge is at the root of all real religious knowledge.
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