Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.