Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

If the Lord comes and burns - as you say he will - I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'