I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.