only place where a faith ever can be safe is in the shrine of an action.

he only real way to "prepare to meet thy God" is to live with thy God so that to meet Him shall be nothing strange.

It is not good for a man to devote himself to preparation for dying. It is preparation for living that you need.

Our virtue should not be a deed, or a work, but a growth—a growth like a tree's, always rising higher from its own inward strength and sap.

The moment that the face is turned away from the dead past, and looks toward the living future, a new power comes. Hope is awake, and hope is infinite.

elf-restraint and honesty and independence, if they are the crown upon the head of a benignant despotism, are the very lifeblood in the veins of a self-governing republic.

To be calm and serene, and yet to be full of energy and hope of higher things,—this comes to him whose life aims at the absolute.

If you cannot argue, live! Be true and pure and lofty and devout, and He who ever seeks the souls of men shall find His way to some of them through you.

When a man means to be honest solely because honesty is right, and not because honesty is profitable, there is a perpetual and beautiful tendency of his honesty to refine and deepen itself.

Dependence upon God makes the independence of men in which are liberty and courage.

here is a type of universal human life in harmony with the best life of all the ages, in tune with the sublimest and finest spiritual music of the universe, which you can live in your parlor and your shop.

No beauty is really beautiful which in any way hinders righteousness or weakens spiritual life.

To every heart's experience comes its time of desert-journeyings.... It eats its manna in the wilderness.

You can know nothing which you do not reverence. You can see nothing before which you do not veil your eyes.

Repentance for safety, even for cleanness, is not complete. The true motive is that God may be glorified in us.