Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

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.

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have some sort of religious fervor, however ridiculous, not realizing that true religion must be according to God's will as the perfect measure; that He can never deny Himself and is no mere spirit form to be changed around according to individual preference.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.