That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

You reap what you sow — not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what want, the answer to every longing--the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.