“We should pray that God would enrich his ordinance with his presence; that he would make the sacrament effectual to all those holy ends and purposes for which he hath appointed it; that it may be t...”

“Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.”

“Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.”

“God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.”

“Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.”

“The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).”

“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.”

“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.”

“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important ...”