Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God's will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.

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

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.