This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe