He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.

Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.