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

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our comprehension, when they are dwelt upon, when they are followed out, and can only be received by faith.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.