The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.