By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

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.

If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to recognize a present and presiding divinity in all things.

Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

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

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.