The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.