Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.