I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.