But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.