Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.

Discover what you are.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.