Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.