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

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

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

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.

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.