We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.