The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.