If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

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

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

All haste implies weakness.

It needs brains to be a real fool.