STUDY your Bible, pray over it. Study the people, pray for them. Preach the word, do not preach about it. Preach to men, not about them. Be sure of the nail you would fasten in the sure place, but do not forget to hammer it in and to clench it.
LEARN God’s thoughts from His word in secret, but when you speak of God to men, do not tell them all that you know, but only what they can understand.
NEVER tell men more than you know, for it is better that those who listen to your voice should read learned books than that they should hear second-hand learning imperfectly spoken.
A LITTLE that a man knows from the teaching of God’s Spirit goes a long way, and that little is better than the much knowledge that is derived from having the best memory in the world. It is like that knowledge possessed by the rustic, whom the lost traveler meets on the moor, in a dark night, and whose acquaintance with the country brings him to his home, and is then worth more than the traveler’s acquaintance with the map, which it is too dark to see!