You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.