Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.

If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of his existence.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.