Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.

Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.