"We can do more good by being good than in any other way."

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“I like ejaculatory prayer; it reaches heaven before the devil can get a shot at it.”

“I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts.”

“Unless you live in Christ, you are dead to God.”

“Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it.”

“I do not want the walls of separation between different orders of Christians to be destroyed, but only lowered, that we may shake hands a little easier over them.”

“But I am unable to reach the lofty theme; — yet I do not think that the smallest fish that swims in the boundless ocean ever complains of the immeasurable vastness of the deep. So it is with me, I can plunge with my puny capacity, into a subject, the immensity of which I shall never be able fully to comprehend.”

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