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.

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

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

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

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

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

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.