Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.