To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

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

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.