If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

Christ is the master; the Scriptures are only the servant.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.