The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.

By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.