Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

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.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.