Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.