If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.