If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And all man's winters are His - the winter of our poverty, the winter of our sorrow, the winter of our unhappiness - even 'the winter of our discontent.

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.