Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.