We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

The best of men are men at best

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.