True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?

Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.