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.

Prayer is faith passing into action.

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.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

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.

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