Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.