Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.