“Grace from on high so opportunely purifies the petty human passions.”

Chapters on Prayer

Act i., Sc. 3.
The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)

Letter to Abigail Adams (22 May 1777), as quoted in And the War Came: The Slavery Quarrel and the American Civil War https://books.google.com/books?id=WbFznb7PSGsC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false, by Donald J. Meyers <br class="br">1770s

It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)

1 Corinthians 8:1
Source: Holy Hesychia: The Stillness that Knows God, p. 33

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 9

Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Context: This practically amounts to saying that much that it is legitimate to admire in this field need nevertheless not be imitated, and that religious phenomena, like all other human phenomena, are subject to the law of the golden mean. Political reformers accomplish their successive tasks in the history of nations by being blind for the time to other causes. Great schools of art work out the effects which it is their mission to reveal, at the cost of a one-sidedness for which other schools must make amends. We accept a John Howard, a Mazzini, a Botticelli, a Michael Angelo, with a kind of indulgence. We are glad they existed to show us that way, but we are glad there are also other ways of seeing and taking life. So of many of the saints we have looked at. We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

Act I, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)

Epilogue (p. 223)
Ages in Chaos (2003)