Conscience, in the cause of religion and the worship of the Deity, prepares the mind to act and to suffer beyond almost all other causes.
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper. I make it a practice to read the Bible through once every year.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
Mercy is forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.