O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of….

Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion ….

In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a f….

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God..

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature..

Be an observer of providence; for God is showing you ever, by the way in which He leads you, whither He means to lead. Study your trials, your talent….

Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite….

We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith..

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions..

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience..

The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's ….

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher..

Education is only second to nature..

Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life..

Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of….

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even no….

We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to Him, we find every thing is transfor….

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience..

Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them..

God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. T….

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin..