In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Prayer is faith passing into action.

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 history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.