The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

I live in Jesus, on Jesus, with Jesus, and soon hope to be perfectly conformed to His likeness.

Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.