Occupation: Clergyman Birth: December 13, 1835 Death: January 23, 1893
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent ….
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon..
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there..
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….
Pray for powers equal to your tasks..
There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of o….
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple..
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….
Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself..
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks..
To find his place and fill it is success for a man..
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….
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might..
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….
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..
There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life s….
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace whi….
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 ….
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours..
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..
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without..