“However many blessings we expect from God, his infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts
“God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth
“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages
“The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls
“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being
“We are separated from God on two sides; the fall separates us from Him, the tree of ife separates Him from us.
“I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is
“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go
“If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back
“If we think that heaven is our country, we should send our wealth thither rather than reatin it here, where on our sudden daparture it will be lost to us
“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God
“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired