Faith and mental stability aren't mutually exclusive.

Mr. Charnock said: Men that are great in the world are quick in passion, and are not so ready to forgive an injury, or bear with an offender, as one of a meaner rank. It is a want of power over that man's self that makes him do unbecoming things upon a provocation. A prince that can bridle his passions is a king over himself as well as over his subjects. God is slow to anger because great in power. He has no less power over Himself than over His creatures.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Leaders grasp nettles.

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?