Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.

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

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

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

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.