Occupation: Clergyman Birth: December 13, 1835 Death: January 23, 1893
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing..
Death is strong, but Life is stronger..
Happiness is the natural flower of duty..
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small..
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the b….
Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings..
Preaching is truth through personality..
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it..
There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind….
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..
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 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 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..