There is one thing that the enemy cannot do, and that is, he cannot prevent Paul from praying. He can still pray. The enemy can confine him to a cell, he can bolt and bar doors, he can chain him to soldiers, he can put bars in the windows, he can hem him in and confine him physically, but he can never obstruct the way from the heart of the humblest believer to the heart of the Eternal God.- Martyn Lloyd-Jones (The Unsearchable Riches of Christ)

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his
convictions. - Jean Rostand

When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.-Jonathan Edwards

One good man,--one man who does not put his religion on
once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears it for his working
dress, and lets the thought of God grow into him, and through
and through him, till everything he says and does becomes
religious, that man is worth a thousand sermons--he is a living
Gospel--he comes in the spirit and power of Elias--he is the
image of God. And men see his good works, and admire them in
spite of themselves, and see that they are Godlike, and that
God's grace is no dream, but that the Holy Spirit is still
among men, and that all nobleness and manliness is His gift,
His stamp, His picture; and so they get a glimpse of God again
in His saints and heroes, and glorify their Father who is in
heaven.-Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), Twenty-five Village Sermons, London: John W. Parker, 1858, p. 197-198