Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

The things that hurt us teach us.

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.