Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God’s sovereignty.

No outward shrines may we seek, nor doctrines strange may we need, for the temple of faith is the soul within, and the creed of right is the life we lead.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

Descartes, the father of modern philosophy … would never—so he assures us—have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher, for then he would have believed what he had been told; but, finding that his professors disagreed with each other, he was forced to conclude that no existing doctrine was certain.

A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.