A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.