We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both….

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….

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune..

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching..

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….

Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the da….

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….

Death is strong, but Life is stronger..

Obedience completes itself in understanding..

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool..

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man..

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it..

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life….

While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love..

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty..

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks..

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward..

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones..

To whatever world He carries our souls when they shall pass out of these imprisoning bodies, in those worlds these souls of ours shall find themselve….

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might..

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depe….