Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood..

A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven..

If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be giv….

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoev….

Christ came not to possess our brains with some cold opinions, that send down a freezing and benumbing influence into our hearts. Christ was a master….

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; ….

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world..

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from ….

He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of God in him. Holiness is no solitary, neglec….

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be..

Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinne….

Even the Atheists... readily acknowledge it for an indubitable truth, that there must be something... which was never made or produced - and which th….

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not..

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that ke….

We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit..

Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point..

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand..

The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conf….

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and ….