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

He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.

To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

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

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

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