You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.