We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.

God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.