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.

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together.