…we do not always care to follow out a train of thought until it ends in a blind cul-de-sac, as some of what are called the logical people are fond of doing.

Language is valuable for the things of this life, but for the things of the other world it is an encumbrance almost as much as an assistance.

…And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee, Thee only God!
and Thou shalt not despise
Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice.

Going to church will not make you a saint, any more than going to school will make you a scholar.

holy lives Reveal the Christ of whom the letter told, 

And the new Gospel verifies the old.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

The best evidence of the truth of Christianity is the evidence of a simple, honest, earnest Christian.

The tendency of the religious of all times has been to care more for religion than for humanity…..

[the Invisible Church]  is a great fellowship of those who have lived for others and not for themselves, for the truth and not for the opinion of men only, above the world and not merely in it.