“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray
“Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments
“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
“Christianity is not only confirmed by miracles, but is in itself, in its very essence, a miraculous religion
“I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme being
“The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give me
“There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice"
“We are separated from God on two sides; the fall separates us from Him, the tree of ife separates Him from us.