If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

A person of faith cannot be rejected or forsaken by God

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.