It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie.

Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.

When we ask of the Lord coolly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we "pretend" that we are seeking.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

Oh, the hard, cruel thoughts which men have toward one another when they are angry! They kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon forgotten by us, but they are not forgotten by God.