Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

Before the truth sets you free, it tends to make you miserable.

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Purify our minds that we may be "first pure, then peaceable," and fortify our souls, that our peaceableness may not lead us into cowardice and despair, when for Thy sake we are persecuted.

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.