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.

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

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

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

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.