Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.

Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of his opinions, he may hold them to doomsday for me; for no opinion, I repeat is Christianity, and no preaching of any plan of salvation is the preaching of the glorious gospel of the living God.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.