Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have Him dwelling in us, that we recognize His presence, and know that we are His, and He is ours. The one is salvation; the other, the assurance of it.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Tell men that God is love; that right is right, and wrong, wrong; let them cease to admire philanthropy, and begin to love men; cease to pant for heaven, and begin to love God; then the spirit of liberty begins.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.