A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

A man full of hope will be full of action.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.