It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
Christ will rise on Easter day!
The glory of the star, the glory of the sun – we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.
Faith says not, ‘I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,’ but, ‘God sent it, and so it must be good for me.’ Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.
Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.
Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. The only chance of any healthy life for it is to be as full a beech-tree as it can be.
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
Get the pattern of your life from God, then go about your work and be yourself.
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.