If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.