Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song which had lost its way and come to earth.
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
Many a friendship – long, loyal, and self-sacrificing – rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.
Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.
Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.
Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.
Every hour comes with some little fagot of God’s will fastened upon its back.
We strain hardest for things which are almost, but now quite within reach.
There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.
Is the scrupulous attention I am paying to the government of my tongue at all proportioned to that tremendous truth revealed through St. James, that if I do not bridle my tongue, all my religion is vain?
The music of the Gospel leads us home.
Kind words are the music of the world.
Nobody is kind to only one person at once, but to many persons in one.
We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator’s majesty.
For right is right, since God is God.