Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Sanctification is not regeneration.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.

I mean, Rex Tillerson is in the business of exploring and finding oil across the globe.

What joy is better than the news of friends?