“A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.”

“It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!”

“Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.”

“Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.”

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use”

“God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.”

“When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.”