Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.