A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher

I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth in the dust, acknowledging that he suffers much less than his iniquities have deserved.

A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.