The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.