I Want A Laitywho Know Their Creed

True Religion Is Slow In Growth, And, When Once Planted, Is Difficult Of Dislodgement; But Its Intellectual Counterfeit Has No Root In Itself: It Springs Up Suddenly, It Suddenly Withers.

How Many Writers Are There... Who, Breaking Up Their Subject Into Details, Destroy Its Life, And Defraud Us Of The Whole By Their Anxiety About The Parts.

I Want A Laity, Not Arrogant, Not Rash In Speech, Not Disputatious, But Men Who Know Their Religion, Who Enter Into It, Who Know Just Where They Stand, Who Know What They Hold And What They Do Not, Who Know Their Creed So Well That They Can Give An Account Of It, Who Know So Much Of History That They Can Defend It.

Virtue Is Its Own Reward, And Brings With It The Truest And Highest Pleasure; But If We Cultivate It Only For Pleasure's Sake, We Are Selfish, Not Religious, And Will Never Gain The Pleasure, Because We Can Never Have The Virtue.

God Has Created All Things For Good; All Things For Their Greatest Good; Everything For Its Own Good. What Is The Good Of One Is Not The Good Of Another; What Makes One Man Happy Would Make Another Unhappy. God Has Determined, Unless I Interfere With His Plan, That I Should Reach That Which Will Be My Greatest Happiness. He Looks On Me Individually, He Calls Me By My Name, He Knows What I Can Do, What I Can Best Be, What Is My Greatest Happiness, And He Means To Give It Me.