Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.