Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until he quicken us and infuse the principle of the divine life into our souls, we can put forth no hand, or vital act of faith, to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.

If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.