Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.

Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.