Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.

A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.

The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out, by typical sacrifices and ablutions, the way in which forgiveness was to be sought and obtained. But grace, to relieve us from the condemnation of the one, and truth answerable to the types and shadows of the other, came by Jesus Christ.

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.