"Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow…"

"The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God."

"They who seek religion for culture-sake are æsthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion ad…"

"There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is …"

"The fact is, those root-truths, on which the foundations of our being rest, are apprehended not logically at all, but…"

"The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to …"

"We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so from honest convi…"

"Not as men of science, not as critics, not as philosophers, but as little children, shall we enter into the kingdom o…"

"[I]t is quite certain that if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestl…"

"Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself."