If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.

If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?