In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

O Lord, all our troubles come to us because we do not have our eyes fixed on you. If only we looked at the path we're walking, we would soon arrive. But, we stumble and fall a thousand times and we stray because we do not set our eyes on the true Way.

If you believe in your heart, and do not doubt in your mind.

Don't you see, hon, this is all beyond us. When things are out of your control, it's time to just sit back and watch the Lord at work.

We will find out. It will all become clear. Heaven is involved, and heaven never leaves anything in which it is involved unresolved.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

But if we listen with our own interests and agendas in mind, if we develop "private interpretations" and idiosyncratic views, we risk shattering that unity, provoking disputes over doubtful matters, and weakening our corporate gospel witness.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.