Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely perhaps are discerned at all without them. The constant association of prayer with the hour of bereavement and the scenes of death suffice to show this.