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

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.

Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

All things are possible with God, but all things are not easy.