Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man.