John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.