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

Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.

The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.