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.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

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.

When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.