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

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

In these two things the greatness of man consists, to have God dwelling in us as to impart His character to us, and to have Him dwelling in us, that we recognize His presence, and know that we are His, and He is ours. The one is salvation; the other, the assurance of it.

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

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

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.

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.