The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

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.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.