“It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.”

“When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”

“… a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous…”

“The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe—the body—is the soul.”

“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”

“When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

“Kings will shudder [that] day,
Woe awaits them!
When the recompenser shall appear,
Let the heaven appear below.
A ruddy wind will be brought
Out to the cinder,
Until the world is as desolate
As when created.”

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.”

“The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God disappears in the anxiety of doubt.”

“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”