How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.
A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.
It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.