There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

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.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.

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 theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.