You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all.

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work is sure of his manhood.