Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
Never tell a child ‘you have a soul.’ Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God’s thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.
You can’t live on amusement. It is the froth on water – an inch deep and then the mud.
I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.
If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!
My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.
The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.
Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.
There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.