Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.

When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is, There is nothing in the understanding which was not first perceived by some of the senses. All the knowledge which we naturally have is originally derived from our senses. And therefore those who want any sense cannot have the least knowledge or idea of the objects of that sense; as they that never had sight have not the least knowledge or conception of light or colours.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.