This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection of that man; that therefore that man ought not to be afraid of anything.

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.