No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is a grand fearlessness in faith. He who in his heart of hearts reverences the good, the true, the holy--that is, reverences God--does not tremble at the apparent success of attacks upon the outworks of faith. They may shake those who rest on those outworks--they do not move him whose soul reposes on the truth itself. He needs no prop or crutches to support his faith. Founded on a Rock, Faith can afford to gaze undismayed at the approaches of Infidelity.

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

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.