You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.