Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it..

It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth..

Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is my God's; and so it is mine in a higher than a leg….

Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event there is a message to us; and all ou….

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe..

For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which ….

It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting hard….

The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infini….

When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths..

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul..

Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things ….

It is from out of the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am nothing, and at on….

The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over….

No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, an….

The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when ….

Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does..

Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps w….

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty..

Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so….

Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer..

It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is i….