Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.

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

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

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.

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