Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

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.

In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.

It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.

All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.