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

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of grace, from first to last. He that perishes chooses to perish; but he that is saved is saved because God has chosen to save him.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.