Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart..

The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a….

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine..

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors ar….

We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not ….

Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot ….

Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration ….

Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship..

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

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

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 ….

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

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

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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

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 ….

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

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