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 come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.
Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.
Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
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 it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest.
Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.
Eloquence is vehement simplicity.
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.
The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.
The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.
Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.
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 the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.
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, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.