Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of - and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system.... The heart must have something to cling to.

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist.

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.

Regardless of how large, your vision is too small.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one