“Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.”

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.

Believe things, rather than man.

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

The judge is nothing but the law speaking.

No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.