“Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.”

“To wait is not merely to remain impassive. It is to expect- to look for with patience, and also with submission. It is to long for, but not impatiently; to look for, but not to fret at the delay; to watch for, but not restlessly; to feel that if He does come we will acquiesce, and yet to refuse to let the mind acquiesce in the feeling that He will not come.”

“I used to trouble about what life was for. Now being alive seems sufficent reason.”

“If you can overcome love, you can overcome fear. If you can overcome fear, you can overcome death.”

“Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world.”

“Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)”