To Be Energetic And Firm Where Principle

Faith, Then, Generically, Is Confidence In A Personal Being. Specifically, Religious Faith Is Confidence In God, In Every Respect And Office In Which He Reveals Himself. As That Love Of Which God Is The Object Is Religious Love, So That Confidence In Him As A Father, A Moral Governor, A Redeemer, A Sanctifier, In All The Modes Of His Manifestation, By Which We Believe Whatever He Says Because He Says It, And Commit Ourselves And All Our Interests Cheerfully And Entirely Into His Hands, Is Religious Faith.

Remove From The History Of The Past All Those Actions Which Have Either Sprung Directly From The Religious Nature Of Man, Or Been Modified By It, And You Have The History Of Another World And Of Another Race.

All Mental Discipline And Symmetrical Growth Are From Activity Of The Mind Under The Yoke Of The Will Or Personal Power.

Who Will Reach Heaven? I Do Not Know, But I Am Certain That No One Will Be There Who Does Not Feel At Home.

Man Has Wants Deeper Than Can Be Supplied By Wealth Or Nature Or Domestic Affections. His Great Relations Are To His God And To Eternity.