Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.