Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.