Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.