A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.