“If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back”

“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.”

“Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion”

“When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within”

“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.- It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter.- It is all pure.”

“Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases”