The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled.
The glories and the beauties of form, color and sound unite in the Grand Canyon – forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop; from cataract to bubbling fountain.
Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.
All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.
The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.
The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.
My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.
Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.
He’s got everything – good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all.
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.
Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.
I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
Untold millions are still untold.
I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.
They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain’t true. I only killed one man for snoring.
Prayer is where the action is.