There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.