Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.