I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
The trouble is that I’m in a hurry, but God isn’t.
How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
Obedience completes itself in understanding.
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
Life is too short to nurse one’s misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.
Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour’s crucifixion.
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, “Christ is risen,” but “I shall rise.”