We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.