To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

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

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children; the face that is as the sun shining in its strength beams with as much love as when it drew publicans and harlots to His feet. The breast that is girt with the golden girdle is the same breast upon which John leaned his happy head.

Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.

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