Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character..

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give..

The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Chri….

The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its roc….

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not..

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you..

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one.

I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion….

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten..

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour..

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it..

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influe….

A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the bl….

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God..

If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates what is holy, it should be of the Christian to consecrate what is secular, and to rec….

Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and….

I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other d….

Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what i….

Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution ….

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection..

It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense..