Great Throughts Treasury

"See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality - that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off the sproutings, all wild and luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core."

"The body, that is but dust; the soul, is a bud of eternity."

"Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin."