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

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God! The "divine service" is not a thing of a few hours and a few places, but all life becomes holiness unto the Lord, and every place and thing, as consecrated as the tabernacle and it's golden candlestick.

I looked at God and He looked at me, and we were one forever.

When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing about the light which he has never seen, and so cannot distinctly speak anything concerning it. He also said that "In a way it is akin to a man writing a travel guide for a land he has never visited or seen. It is to attempt to describe the indescribable with words which cannot come close to expressing the glory of heaven.

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.