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.

When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

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