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

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

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.

What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.