Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.

If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.