You are not so good a Christian when you are neglecting a plain duty as when you are performing it. And joining the church is a plain duty for all who mean to be Christians.

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.

Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.

Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.

My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household.

Don't fear failure, fear inaction.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

It's much harder to play beloved than to play a rotten guy. Rotten guy is a piece of cake. So playing a beloved person really sets a high bar for your behavior and your acting and what you project.

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.