[C]ompassion will cure more sins than condemnation. - Henry Ward Beecher

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry.

Christ is the ideal of what a man should be. He has my ideal portrait, as it were, drawn out in His own thought and feeling. There is an exaltation and a grandeur for myself in the time to come, which Christ knows, and I do not; but I am following after. I am pressing up toward that thought that Christ has of what I am and ought to be; and I am determined that I will apprehend it as Christ Himself does. Not that I have it; but I will strive for it. My manhood is in the future. My life lies beyond the present.