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

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.

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

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

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

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.

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