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

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.

Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

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

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.