He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous as the man who will not believe in the Bible? He swallows a ton of difficulties, and yet complains that we have swallowed an ounce of them. He has much more need of faith of a certain sort than we have, for skepticism has far harder problems than faith.

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.