We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

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The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

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Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.

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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

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The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!

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