As Christ is the blossom of humanity, so the blossom of every man is Christ perfected in him.

What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth. How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.