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.

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

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

The truly wise talk little about religion and are not given to taking sides on doctrinal issues. When they hear people advocating or opposing the claims of this or that party in the church, they turn away with a smile such as men yield to the talk of children. They have no time, they would say, for that kind of thing. They have enough to do in trying to faithfully practice what is beyond dispute.

The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.

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