Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are. Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all. The preacher who deals with the great truths of holy character must impersonate those truths. The preacher who best commends the truth of the gospel to his hearers is he who has translated that truth into his own life, until his life is full of it and redolent of it. When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
All growth depends upon activity.
There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. The world is blessed by people who do things, and not by those who merely talk about them. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know. Deliberation is the work of many people. Action, of one alone.