You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

Christian life consists of faith and charity

It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.