One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.

Words derive their power from the original word.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.

God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.