What would the Living One have me do?

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.

A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.