Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.