“If I thoroughly appreciated those first words of the Lord’s prayer – ‘Our Father, which art in heaven’ – and really believed that God, who made heaven and earth and all creatures, was really my Father, then I should certainly conclude that I also am a lord of heaven and earth; that Christ is my brother, Gabriel my servant, and all the angels my attendants, given unto me by my heavenly Father, to keep me in His ways, lest I knock my foot against a stone.”
“When Abraham shall rise again in the last day, then he will chide us for our unbelief, and will say – I had not the hundredth part of the promises that ye have, and yet I believed. That example of Abraham’s exceeds all natural human reason, who, overcoming the paternal love he bore towards his only son Isaac, was all obedient to God, and, against the law of nature, would have sacrificed that son. What, for the space of those three days, he felt in his heart; what hesitations and trials he had, cannot be expressed.”