“It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing”

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.

To be filled with God, is a great thing; to be filled with the fulness of God, is still greater; to be filled with all the fulness of God, is greatest of all.

Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father’s house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other’s praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect

They must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts

Play is experimenting with chance.

Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.

Everyone gets that second album syndrome.

Most of the people in the world are good and decent if you give them a chance to be.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

You’ve got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.