If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.

Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That glimmer with an amethystine light.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father.

do as a I say, not as I do.

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.

In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it; yet I do not advise you to do it from that motive.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.

No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you, you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.