Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.