true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

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

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.