Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

In the calmness of the morning before the mind is heated and weary by the turmoil of the day, you have a season of unusual importance for communing with God and with yourself.

How can you measure the value of the good news of Christ? It is spoken of in the Bible as light in the darkness, freedom from slavery and life from death. Look at how much the Early Church valued the message. They received it with great joy and overflowing gratitude.

Some might say that one’s faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don’t even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.

The instructive admonitions, “give an account of thy stewardship,“ – “occupy till I come;” are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness.

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint.

Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.