The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards.
Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.
The work that is done in love loses half its tedium and difficulty.
More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches.
Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?
The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume.