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

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.