It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us..

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was enga….

The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through ….

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections..

Pray for powers equal to your tasks..

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself..

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week..

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but takin….

To find his place and fill it is success for a man..

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot..

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him..

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly ….

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 ….

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbor….

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without..

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young..

O, do not pray for easy lives..

Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in u….

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith..

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….