Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.