Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.