The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.

In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and to which, at the very moment that we refuse our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse the homage of what ourselves do feel and acknowledge to be the best, the highest principles of our nature.

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

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.