No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.