All true religion must stand on true morality.
A man’s religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
Refinement is the lifting of one’s self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man’s head.
Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
Going out into life – that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
Books are the true metempsychosis, – they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.