Occupation: Clergyman Birth: December 13, 1835 Death: January 23, 1893
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward..
To find his place and fill it is success for a man..
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young..
O, do not pray for easy lives..
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 more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man..
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children..
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity..
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 inteā¦.
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back..