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.

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.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.