Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

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.

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.