This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

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

The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you.