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.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.