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

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

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

When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

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

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.