Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.

Criticism is not religion, and by no process can it be substituted for it. It is not the critic's eye, but the child's heart, that most truly discerns the countenance that looks out from the pages of the gospel.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .