If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!