In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.