The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond; but most people only look at it; and so they see only the dead letter.