Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth – rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.
Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
The workshop of character is everyday life.
A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.
This is my Father’s world: O let me ne’er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.
I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God’s word, or God’s world.
Life is what we are alive to.
Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.
Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.
Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father’s house.
If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.
Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.
You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.