I tell you God cannot afford to damn a man in the next world who has made a happy family in this. God cannot afford to cast over the battlements of heaven the man who has a happy home upon this earth. God cannot afford to be unpitying to a human heart capable of pity. God cannot clothe with fire the man who has clothed the naked here; and God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-men.

I never have denied the immortality of the soul. I have simply been honest. I have said: 'I do not know.'

I tell you the children have the same rights that we have, and we ought to treat them as though they were human beings. They should be reared with love, with k…

I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only w…

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of th…

I told them that anything they do for their brothers and sisters is good if they do it with a good thought...