That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.

If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.