We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

The whole history of the Christian life is a series of resurrections. . . . Every time we find our hearts are troubled, that we are not rejoicing in God, a resurrection must follow; a resurrection out of the night of troubled thought into the gladness of the truth.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.