Occupation: Writer Birth: August 3, 1858 Death: May 18, 1901
If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship..
If a friend is the one who summons us to our best, then is not Jesus Christ our best friend, and should we not think of the Communion as one of His c….
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man wh….
Dare we let children grow up with no vital contact with the Saviour, never intentionally and consciously put into His arms? Not to bring them to Him,….
The workshop of character is everyday life..
Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contr….
Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house..
God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ..
If you can help anybody even a little, be glad..
Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Let the world tell you in a hundred ways wha….
The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are, and not as we wish them to b….
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 ….
It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to b….
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….
It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as though we knew a thousand reasons. I pray God to….
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them..
Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea..
This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet..
The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself..
Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty..
We should care, not so much about being recognized, as about being worth recognition..