When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

- John Lancaster Spalding

What we love to do we find time to do.

- John Lancaster Spalding

If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be

- John Lancaster Spalding

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

- John Lancaster Spalding

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

- John Lancaster Spalding

The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites,…

- John Lancaster Spalding

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person h…

- John Lancaster Spalding

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

- John Lancaster Spalding

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

- John Lancaster Spalding