God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power.