Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.

The place of connection or separation in relationship to your own being, the place in your self where this occurs, is in your heart.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)

It is not age which killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities.

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

If you look at the polls - the conservatives are fine.I think there will be a fair amount of enthusiasm, or at least motivation. They very much want to remove President [Barack] Obama.