I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial; force it to answer the interrogatories put to it; set the qualifications of the saints on one side, and the qualifications of thy soul on the other side, and then judge what resemblance there is between them.

Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?