Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home

Why pray for the Kingdom of God to come unless you have in your heart a desire and a willingness to aid in its establishment? Praying for His will to be done and then not trying to live it, gives you a negative answer at once. You would not grant something to a child who showed that attitude towards a request he is making of you. If we pray for the success of some cause or enterprise, manifestly we are in sympathy with it. It is the height of disloyalty to pray for God's will to be done, and then fail to conform our lives to that will.

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities.

The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.