I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

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.

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.