Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for God’s approval and blessing. The second is not to expect too much from their partners, and to remember that marriage is, after all, the union of two sinners, and not of two angels. The third rule is to strive first and foremost for one another’s sanctification. The more holy married people are, the happier they are.

God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.

To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.

The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.