Man's rank is his power to uplift.

"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way."

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.