“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
“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
“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
“Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven
“I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further
“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love
“It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing
“When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something
“let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, though all things pass, God does not change. Patience wins all things. But he lacks nothing who possesses God; for God alone suffices.
“By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.