It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.