The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be denominated true or false glory, accordingly as the ends to which it is directed are beneficial or mischievous, just or unjust objects of pursuit; but it is false, because it exalts that which ought to be abased, and criminal, because it encroaches on the prerogative of God.