Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.