A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
I wonder what day I shall die on – one passes year by year over one’s death day, as one might pass over one’s grave.
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.
It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
It is not God’s way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you’r passage through life.
Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.
What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.
Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.