5 Quotes by Noah Porter

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.