Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can go on to say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'

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

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

It is not the thinker who is the true king of men, as we sometimes hear it proudly said. We need one who will not only show, but be the Truth; who will not only point, but open and be the Way; who will not only communicate thought, but give, because He is the Life. Not the rabbi's pulpit, nor the teacher's desk, still less the gilded chairs of earthly monarchs, least of all the' tents of conquerors, are the throne of the true king. He rules from the cross.

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

As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being. God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard.

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