Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
Science is like society and trade, in resting at bottom upon a basis of faith. There are some things here, too, that we can not prove, otherwise there would be nothing we can prove. Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. It is a mistake to contrast religion and science in this respect, and to think of religion as taking everything for granted, and science as doing only clean work, and having all the loose ends gathered up and tucked in. We never reach the roots of things in science more than in religion.
Purpose is what gives life meaning.
Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.
Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.
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 kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.
Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.
In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.
Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.
Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.
Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.
Labor is the handmaid of religion.
Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.
Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Human success is a quotation from overhead.
There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
Every thought was once a poem.
