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.

God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Love is the world's river of life

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.