Occupation: Clergyman Birth: December 13, 1835 Death: January 23, 1893
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone..
Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings..
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep i….
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more..
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words..
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spok….
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 ….
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple..
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….
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by..
Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present..
So shall we join the disciples of our Lord, keeping faith in Him in spite of the crucifixion, and making ready, by our loyalty to Him in the days of ….
The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it..
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 ….
To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge..
The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't..
Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest….
The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be u….
Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it,….
There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has ….
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself..