Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

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.

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

All good government must begin at home.

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.

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?

Blame is the cowards way out.

And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon.

One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!