All quotes

All sincere and earnest search after truth, even where it fails to reach it, yet, often comes so near to it, that other minds more happily situated may be led, by pointing out its very limitations and errors, to obtain a larger view.

Give us labour and the training which fits for labour! We demand this, not for ourselves alone, but for the race.

In love there is no first nor last!

We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.

Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.

The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will.

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.

The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.

This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.

We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.

Just to touch the lichened bark of a tree, or the end of a spray projecting over the path as I walked, seemed to repeat the same prayer in me.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another--until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.