Occupation: Clergyman Birth: December 13, 1835 Death: January 23, 1893
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small..
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything..
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching..
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul fu….
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….
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life..
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….
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,….
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 ….
Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings..
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..
Christ will rise on Easter day!.
If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing..
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….
Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process..
Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our inte….
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young..
You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing..
O, do not pray for easy lives..
The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any ….
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more..