Good Friday, Easter Day, and Ascension, are set as great lights in the firmament of the spiritual year; -- to remind us that we are not animals born to do what we like, and fulfil the simple lusts of the flesh -- but that we are rational moral beings, members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, and that, therefore, like Christ, we must die in order to live, stoop in order to conquer. They remind us that honour must grow out of humility; that freedom must grow out of discipline; that sure conquest must be born of heavy struggles; righteous joy out of righteous sorrow; pure laughter out of pure tears; true strength out of the true knowledge of our own weakness; sound peace of mind out of sound contrition.

All Saints' Day Sermons. 1871.