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

Religion is using everything for God.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.