When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.

He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.

Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.