The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.