I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God, I will never go back. Elijah Parish Lovejoy Read Quote
I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down – I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative. Elijah Parish Lovejoy Read Quote
Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God. Elijah Parish Lovejoy Read Quote
I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer. Elijah Parish Lovejoy Read Quote
As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same. Elijah Parish Lovejoy Read Quote
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible. Elijah Parish Lovejoy Read Quote
I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was. Elijah Parish Lovejoy Read Quote
It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so. Elijah Parish Lovejoy Read Quote
I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world. Elijah Parish Lovejoy Read Quote
