The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

I am ashamed of some christians because they have so much dependence on Parliment and the law of the land. Much good may Parliment ever do to true religion except by mistake! As to getting the law of the land to touch our religion, we earnestly cry, `Hands off! Leave us alone.' Your Sunday bills and all other forms of the act-of-Parliment religion seem to me to be all wrong. Give us a fair field and no favor, and our faith has no cause to fear. Christ wants no help from Caesar.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.