“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.”

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.

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.

If evolution wins, Christianity goes!

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right to teach agnosticism as Christians have to teach their religion.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by.

The wilderness needs your whole attention.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes – distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

The center of the stage is where I am.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they’re organized for.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

Bruce Lee brought the martial arts movie to the attention of the world – and without him, I don’t think that anyone would have ever heard of Jackie Chan.