All of the heroes who have served before us have already defined, with the last full measure, what courage means.

I find to this day seven abominations in my heart:

For the moral teaching of Jesus was a challenge that could not be evaded.

"The peacemakers are pronounced blessed, they namely who make peace first within their own hearts, then between brethren at variance."

Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul...

No attribute of God is more often referred to in the Old Testament than His mercy.

So the blessedness of those who hunger and thirst depends on the assurance that they shall be filled.

Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever.—ISAIAH 60:21.

The pleasures of each generation evaporate in air; it is their pains that increase the spiritual momentum of the world.—ILLINGWORTH.

The blessing of the Old Testament was prosperity, but the blessing of the New Testament is adversity.—BACON.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness and instead thereof find blessedness.

Unless the moral ideals of Jesus are as valid today as when first they were spoken, Christianity is not what it claims to be...