Prayer is faith passing into action.

Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.

Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

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.

Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.