Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to feed or live upon; which can only then be done when every degree of perfection we aim at is a degree of death to the passions of the natural man.

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.

Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument.

"Sidney Godophin," said Charles , "is never in the way and never out of the way."

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learn'd the language of another world.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

God is too kind to do anything cruel; too wise to make a mistake; too deep to explain Himself.

Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!

For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.

Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements the inquiring constructive mind.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man that you can paint the air.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.