The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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.
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.
Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.
Death is strong, but Life is stronger.
I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.
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.
Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.
The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.
Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings.
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.
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 themselves part of the same great temple; for it belongs not to this earth alone.
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