... moral evil is its own curse.

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

Faith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.

The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.

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.

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.

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.