There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.