The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

Fill each day with light and heart.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.