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That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.
Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.
God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.
My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.
The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
The Christian Church does not exist in Heaven, but on earth and in time.
May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.
Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
If Christians win a battle by using worldly means, they have really lost.
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.
Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
Prayer is such a great effort to most of us because we do not pray right.
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.
Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.
Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.
The church's or Christian group's methods are as important as its message.
The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.
All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.