“The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.”

“The purpose of the gospel is to make bad men good and good men better, and to change human nature.”

“Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.”

“The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.”

“The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.”

“If men be good, government cannot be bad.”