By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

The presence of the Holy Spirit isthe keystone of all our hopes.

God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

If we wait upon God, there is no danger. If we rush on, He must let us see the consequences of it.

Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.