The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet, but have to be, understood. . . . Doubts must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.