“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
“If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God
“We are separated from God on two sides; the fall separates us from Him, the tree of ife separates Him from 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
“I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven
“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.
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only
“Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees, takes off his shoes - the rest sit round it and pluck blackberries
“In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike
“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent