Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.