In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.