God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.