To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.