Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.