Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.