True obedience is true freedom.

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.