The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.

Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.