To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.