The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.