Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.

Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.

I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.