If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

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

A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.

We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to Him, we find every thing is transformed. There is life in us from God; a kind of Christ-consciousness is opened in us, testifying with the apostle,--Christ liveth in me.

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.