Occupation: Clergyman Birth: December 13, 1835 Death: January 23, 1893
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will ….
The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of….
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God..
Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law….
The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do ou….
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not ….
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..
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use..
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….
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by..
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious..
You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally an….
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches b….
Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is he….
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still..
He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the ….
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune..
O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own..
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power..
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 ar….
The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed..