For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere the Bible tells us our salvation is to be by faith. Therefore we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings, if we would honor faith.

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.