If you release me today, I'll preach tomorrow.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.