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

It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.