Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

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

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

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

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

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.

Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.