A sour religion is the devil's religion.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.