The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

We should count time by heart-throbs.

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.

Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and deeper shadows.

If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.

I will deliver like you've never seen before. I deliver. Whether people like Donald Trump or not, they all say he delivers.

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.

Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.

I'm not a Christian because I need a crutch. Hey, I need a stretcher!