Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

True piety hath in it nothing weak, nothing sad, nothing constrained. It enlarges the heart; it is simple, free, and attractive.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.