Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.