Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below, sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and hate.

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order.

Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.