We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

I am not of the opinion that all the arts shall be crushed to earth and perish through the Gospel, as some bigoted persons pretend, but would willingly see them all, and especially music, servants of Him who gave and created them.

I see a word that hates evil more than it loves good.