For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.

Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.

Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

Christians are rare people on earth.

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.