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.

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.