It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

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

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

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

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.