Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature.

Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.

The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God.

Why do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm.

The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.

As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirit's light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature.

The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it.

Faith is as precious to die by as it is to live by.