There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.