This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is my God's; and so it is mine in a higher than a legal sense. Yes, this is the beauty, this is the whole sublimity, this is the tender delight of life - that it is of God's governing.

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into "the valley of the shadow of death." But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.

Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.