For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great deal more of the Bible than of the truth, and ten times more of their creed than of the will of God. Of course, if they heard anyone utter such words as I have just written, they would say he was and atheist.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

The principle part of faith is patience.