Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

The most essential point is lowliness.

God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.

Fear is like the strong medicine used to fight serious diseases; it purges, but it also alters your temperament and wears out the body organs. A person who is driven by fear will always be the weaker for it

Little opportunities should be improved.