The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain.

Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity.

I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.