Occupation: Writer Birth: August 3, 1858 Death: May 18, 1901
Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty..
Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house..
The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself..
Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are le….
The workshop of character is everyday life..
If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it ….
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 ….
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….
To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown..
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….
Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God..
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….
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….
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….
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..
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..
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….
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have ….
You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with..
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….
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….