There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

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

It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.

The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

It is in those times of hopeless chaos when the sovereign hand of God is most likely to be seen.