The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.

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

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.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.