Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.

The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.

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

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

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