True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Trials teach us what we are.

I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

Don't just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn't hurt to put a little honey on it

Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent