Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.

When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.