Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.

Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.