“He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.”

Trust in God and ye need not fear.

True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won’t be for another thousand years?

The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.

Presidents in both parties – from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan – have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.