Occupation: Clergyman Birth: December 13, 1835 Death: January 23, 1893
Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven..
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise..
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon..
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious..
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….
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life..
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old..
Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights ….
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent ….
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing..
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God..
It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-ju….
It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a….
Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with t….
O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doi….
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you..
Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for T….
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything..
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….
Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes t….
Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grate….