No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.