Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

I am so tried by the things said about God. I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how he can be so patient with the pious!

To try to be brave is to be brave.

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?