Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.