The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
Faith, like light, should always be simple and unbending; while love, like warmth, should beam forth on every side, and bend to every necessity of our brethren.
The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man’s reason.
Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works.
I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.
God is entirely and personally present in the wilderness, in the garden, in the field.
The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.
For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.
Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.
In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing.
Your thoughts of God are too human.
I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.
Nothing is easier than sinning.
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.
Teaching is of more importance than urging.
Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.