Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.

It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

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