All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost..

There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To….

God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours..

The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and t….

High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up t….

It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His….

We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one a….

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility..

When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling you….

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness..

A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of diffic….

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly..

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented..

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere..

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart..

Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of r….

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals..

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest..