With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.