Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

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

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.

Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only.

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