I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

It was with good reason that God commanded through Moses that the vineyard and harvest were not to be gleaned to the last grape or grain; but something to be left for the poor. For covetousness is never to be satisfied; the more it has, the more it wants. Such insatiable ones injure themselves, and transform God's blessings into evil.

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.