Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins when they suggest, it realizes and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

Love is a many-sided sacrifice it means thoughtfulness for others it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.

No hell will frighten men away from sin no dread of prospective misery only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven within.

Personality is that which is most intimate to me—that by which I must act out my life. It is that by which I belong to man, that by which I amable to reach after God and He has given to me this pearl of great price. It is an immortal treasure it is mine, it is His, and no man shall pluck it out of His hand.

Feeling comes before reflection.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.

No soul is bad enough for a fixed hell, or good enough for a fixed heaven, however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.