Life has possibilities; death has none.

If you would make your mind strong, you must give it strong food.

It is the mystery which lies all around the little we know which makes life so unspeakably interesting. I am thankful that that which I do not know, is so immeasurably greater than that which I know. I am thankful that I am only at the beginning of things.

We can no more exist without a surrounding God, than a tree can exist without a surrounding atmosphere.

Nature is a library of divine thoughts to the spiritualized mind.

A man who cannot stand upright, cannot, of course, walk. And a man whose faith has no backbone to it, can do nothing but crawl or float about, to and fro, with the advancing and receding tide.

Without religion no man can soar.

Very much less than we think does our happiness depend upon that which is external to us. If there is no heaven within, all the externalities of an outward heaven would be insufficient to produce happiness.

Each heart throws off its own atmosphere, as each flower its own perfume.

If there be one truth that we need more than another, to steady us and keep us cheerful in the midst of accidents, dangers, fears, and deaths, it is this truth of immortality. God cannot work out His plan for us on this narrow platform, and in these few years. The stage is much too small for the drama of life.... So much begins here--the lives of babes, of little children--with such promise in them, and no room for performance. And what are we all but children of a larger growth--infants crying for a light, and with no language but a cry? The one imperious necessity seems to be immortality.

The man who gives me a new thought enriches me.

To take thought, to take truth, and translate them into life--that is the hard, hard battle.

Death is progress, advance, disimprisonment.

Great trees are of slow growth; and great ideas have to be before the mind and in the heart a long time before they are sufficiently familiar to have the face of friends.

Man is here to search for truth, and to search until he finds it. And he will enjoy it all the more that he has had to search for it.

The highest evidence that love exists is its readiness to overlook and pardon faults.

You have in you intuitions of immortality, trust them; they are right. Follow them; they will lead you to your Father's house.

No man is permanently and fixedly evil, until he is willingly evil.

Truth never changes.

The only faculty by which we can bring the invisible near, is the imagination. Beyond that which the eye sees, beyond that which the ear hears, is a great region in which life is freer and more transcendently glorious than this. The imagination in us finds its field in trying to grasp that great fact.

Oh, you do not know yet what Christianity is! You have seen it in poverty, in want, in weakness and woe. A despised wayfaring man, struggling with His hard fate, kicked, buffeted, and despised, even as such an one has Christianity been in the world--a candle in a dark room, a light in a dark place, a sweet song among discords, a heavenly toned voice drowned in Babel sounds; but its day is coming. The heavenly toned voice will rise above and still the Babel sounds; the sweet song will penetrate and harmonize the discords; the light will illumine the dark place until the darkness flies.

Half the human race are taken out of the world as children. I think that proves God's great fondness for children as children.

It is wiser and better always to face facts, never to ignore them. Interrogate them; ask them what they mean, and what they have to teach.

The most perfect communion of soul with soul, the most exquisite fellowship of mind with mind, are possible only where undoubted trust and undying love are possible, nowhere else. Nothing so ennobles and purifies a spirit as the exercise of faith in somebody.

Sin is the exact opposite of love. Love means harmony; sin, discord. Love is constructive; sin, destructive. Love clings to God as a Father, as Jesus did. Sin would murder God if it could, as it murdered Jesus on Calvary.

One reason, I verily believe, why many are always learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth is, that they have no set intent and purpose to use truth--to make it practical and operative.