There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?

He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.