A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

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

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.