Let every man come to God in his own way.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.