No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.