There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

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

Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it.

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.