Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Understanding is the reward of faith.

It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.