Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do… - Henry Clay Trumbull

An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys of paradise, which performs no duty which it can shirk, and whose constant prayer is to be lifted in some overwhelming flood of Divine grace, and be carried, amidst the admiration of men and the jubilance of angels, to the very throne of God.