The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.