The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.

God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.

The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.

Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike.