It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.
Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.
When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.
Our joy ends where love of the world begins.
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.