I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.