If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

Prayer is faith passing into action.

In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.

There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.