Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

Cloud is cloud.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like a conscience.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

Learn to obey before you command.