Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in 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.

How on the face of the earth could a man enjoy his religion, when he had been told by the Lord how to prepare for a day of famine, when, instead of doing so, he had fooled away that which would have sustained him and his family.

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

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