“The history of Temples teaches us that the people of God have been strong, or weak, in proportion to the faithfulness with which they have attended to their sanctuaries.”
“Feeling comes in aid Of feeling, and diversity of strength Attends us, if but once we have been strong.”
“True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!”
“...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.”
“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
“Watching you has taught me that a man need not be weak to have a faith, but is made strong by it.”