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.

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

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid.

All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

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

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over

There is an aching that is worse than any pain.