“The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.”

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don’t argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.