Prayer is faith passing into action.

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.

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.

The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

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