To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

I agree with you that the communion with the invisible saints must be more of a dream than a reality. But we have a right to dream dreams, if they are not contradicted by the evident laws of God's word, or God's world.

Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God.

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.

Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.