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.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.