Man Is A Tool-making Animal

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] Used, Indeed, Sometimes To Pray For My Conversion, But Never Had The Satisfaction Of Believing That His Prayers Were Heard.

I Think Also, That General Virtue Is More Probably To Be Expected And Obtained From The Education Of Youth, Than From Exhortations Of Adult Persons; Bad Habits And Vices Of The Mind Being, Like Diseases Of The Body, More Easily Prevented Than Cured. I Think Moreover, That Talents For The Education Of Youth Are The Gift Of God; And That He On Whom They Are Bestowed, Whenever A Way Is Opened For Use Of Them, Is As Strongly Called As If He Heard A Voice From Heaven.

Whether A Commonwealth Suffers More By Hypocritical Pretenders To Religion Or By The Openly Profane? The Most Dangerous Hypocrite In A Commonwealth Is One Who Leaves The Gospel For The Sake Of The Law. A Man Compounded Of Law And Gospel Is Able To Cheat A Whole Country With His Religion And Then Destroy Them Under Color Of Law.

Taxes Are Indeed Very Heavy - We Are Taxed Twice As Much By Our Idleness. Three Times As Much By Our Pride. And Four Times As Much By Our Folly.

We Can Defer, Yet Time Is Most Certainly Not.