one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too much and do too little, who cannot forget their own selfish salvation enough to look after other people's without feeling their own spiritual pulse all the time they are doing it. Of late I've sometimes suspected that it is nearly as debilitating to stay in the church all the time as it would be to stay in a hospital all the time.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties of Christians in cities, leads as naturally to the outvent of what Methodists call "revivals" as did the backslidings of the people in those days.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.