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.

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

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

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

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.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.