Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.