Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Feel for others - in your pocket

Men to be truly won must be won by truth.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.