“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven”

“Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth”

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed”

“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders”

“God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, a gauntlet with a gift in it ”

“I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place”