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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Anger is self-immolation.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

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.

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 it to the end.

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

Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

Christ will rise on Easter day!

Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

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 engaged.

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎

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 taking hold of God's willingness.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

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

Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

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

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, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.

How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

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

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

It is God's world still. It has been given to man not absolutely, but in trust, that man may work out in it the will of God; given-may we not say?-just as a father gives a child a corner of his great garden, and says, "There, that is yours; now cultivate it.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.

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 interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.

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 us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall "be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God"; for that, and that alone, is peace.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.