Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.