As the fruit to the tree and the water to the spring, so is action to thought.

The sudden falling, when greatly tempted, into some grievous sin by one who was believed, and who believed himself, to stand firm, is seen neither to be a sudden nor a causeless thing when the hidden processes of thought which led up to it are revealed. The falling was merely the end, the outworking, the finished result of what commenced in the mind probably years before. The man had allowed a wrong thought to enter his mind; and a second and a third time he had welcomed it, and allowed it to nestle in his heart. Gradually he became accustomed to it, and cherished and fondled, and tended it; and so it grew until at last it attained such strength and force that it attracted to itself the opportunity which enabled it to burst forth and ripen into act.

All sin and temptation are the natural outcome of the thoughts of the individual.

A man cannot cling to anything unless he believes in it; belief always precedes action, therefore a man’s deeds and life are the fruits of his belief.

He who believes in all those things that are good will love them, and live in them, he who believes in those things that are impure and selfish will love them, and cling to them. The tree is known by its fruits.

A man’s beliefs about God, Jesus, and the Bible are one thing, his life, as bound up in his actions, is another, therefore a man’s theological belief is of no consequence, but the thoughts which he harbors, his attitude of mind towards others, and his actions—these, and these only, determine and demonstrate whether the belief of a man’s heart is fixed in the false or the true.

There are only two beliefs which vitally affect the life, and they are: belief in good and belief in evil.