Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?