Every noble work is at first impossible.

No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.