Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite yourself to God, and the doing power you have is infinite.

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

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.

The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's call, with the fashion of their countenance altered and shining like His own.