Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.