Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation..

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts..

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow..

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired..

Every thought was once a poem..

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith….

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together..

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps..

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes..

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance..

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants..

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides..

Purpose is what gives life meaning..

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners..

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of..

The old echoes are long in dying..

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a ki….

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns..

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed..

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other..

Faith is the heroism of the intellect..