Universalist Quote of the Day #227

“Oh, yes, there’s a brite clime, a brite world of joy,
Where love’s blossoms fade not, nor death can destroy,
Where the pure and the good their sweet influence impart:
In the friendship of heaven is the home of the heart.
There the sad heart will rest from its sorrow and pain,
And the glad heart its blissful emotions retain;
There [...]

Universalist Quote of the Day #227

“Since the birth of Christianity its success has depended upon the amount of the missionary spirit possessed by those who have been leaders, and others who have caught the spirit from them.  It has not always been under an organized form of missionary effort; but the work has been accomplished by that spirit.  The birth [...]

Universalist Quote of the Day #226

“And in the world
Where all the air is like the breath of peace,
Where earth’s wild tumult and its passions cease,
Where all the sorrows we have known below
Shall into pleasure-blossoms bud and blow,
Where bonds are broken, and where barriers fall,
Where heart hears heart, and soul to soul doth call,
Where speech is true, where all things fair [...]

Universalist Quote of the Day #225

“Life, life! ‘t is singing in the rills,
And piping in the meadows,
‘Tis bursting from the gray old trees
That cast their ghostly shadows;
The bluebirds and the robins now
Awaken sweet reflection;
All things are typical this morn
Of life and resurrection:
I cannot tune my heart to woe
In such a world of glory
When every year repeats anew
The gospel’s gracious story.”
–Mrs. [...]

Universalist Quote of the Day #224

“Twas but a whispered tone
Of friendly warning given,
But yet it had a power to lead
An erring soul to heaven.
Well would it be for earth,
If mid its grief and sin,
There were more faithful love to warn,
More patient hope to win.”
–Julia Fletcher Carney

Universalist Quote of the Day #223

“How glorious the result of the Saviour’s mission!  No subject of reflection can equal it for the grandeur of its theme and the blessings it involves to the race.  By its view of man’s assimilation in thought, feeling, and act, to the will and wishes of God and his dear Son, and consequently of the [...]

Universalist Quote of the Day #222

“All men, the wicked as well as the good, are children of God.  They are his children by creation.  As St. John declares, ‘All things were made by him, and without him there was not anything made that was made.’  This text affirms more than we are apt to think.  It affirms that God made [...]

Universalist Quote of the Day #221

“Thus the Universalist idea meets every test by which a form of religious philosophy must be tried.  It quails not under the application of the laws of thought.  It answers the severest demands of the conscience, and awakens a welcome response in the moral instincts of the human heart.  It is humane, charged with the [...]

Universalist Quote of the Day #220

“I can prove with the clearness of light, in theory, that, upon all the known laws and principles of the human mind, Universalism is superior to any other system in its moral tendency.  But after all it is better to do so practically.  Let us live the doctrine we profess, and we shall demonstrate the [...]

Universalist Quote of the Day #219

“In the issues of God’s dispensations there can be no permanent ill.  He is absolutely good.  Of him are all things, through him are all things, and to him all things tend.  When the goal is attained, all will be well.  When our visions are unsealed by the life immortal, we shall see that what [...]