If all Christians acted like Christ, the whole world would be Christian.

Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.

To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

No man has a capacity for virtue who sacrifices honour for gain. Fortune is powerless to help one who does not exert himself. That man becomes happy who follows Christ.

Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.

The times of the Birth and Passion of Christ, with such like niceties, being not material to religion, were little regarded by the Christians of the first age. They who began first to celebrate them, placed them in the cardinal periods of the year.