If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.