Occupation: Writer Birth: August 3, 1858 Death: May 18, 1901
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 ar….
You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with..
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do no….
Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God..
Lord, let me make this rule To think of life as school, And try my best To stand each test, And do my work, And nothing shirk. Should someone else ou….
Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at all. When we pray for forgiveness, let….
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have ….
The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the ground are far more truly the man's proper….
Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift..
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 you….
The tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man's business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the….
Life is what we are alive to. It is not length, but breadth. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kin….
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..
Be strong: we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift, shun not the struggle, face it, 'tis god's gift. B….
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 fac….
Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man..
To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown..
Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all ….
Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!.
If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the g….
Is not this steadfastness to mark, to make, the character of your lives? Is it not God's will that we should press steadily on to our goal in obedien….