Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness.
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.
Death is strong, but Life is stronger...
Anger is self-immolation.
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to.
There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow merely thankful for belief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with, and trust in, Him who has released us.
When you discover you’ve been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.
No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God’s likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.
To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.