We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it.

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

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.

God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an equivalent for the punishment due to all his people.