If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.

If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.

I looked at God and He looked at me, and we were one forever.

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.