Faith converses with the angels, and antedates the hymns of glory.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.

The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.