Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!

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.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

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

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

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