The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

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

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

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

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.

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.