Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer..

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh..

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other..

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction..

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have le….

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces ….

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God..

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes o….

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it..

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life..

The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, th….

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things..

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will ….

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself..

When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there ….

He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because….

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes..

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to ….

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction..

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it..

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes..