You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.