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

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

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.

It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is causing another to do. Teaching gives knowledge. Training gives skill. Teaching fills the mind. Training shapes the habits. Teaching brings to the child that which he did not have before. Training enables a child to make use of that which is already his possession.

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.

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

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.