If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the germ. The hand of the woman in the crowd trembled as it was stretched toward Jesus, and the faith back of it was superstitiously reverent, trusting in the virtue of the robe, rather than in the One who wore it; yet the genuineness of that faith; feeble though it was, triumphed in God's loving sight. Real trust is real power, though the heart and hand be feeble.

We should care, not so much about being recognized, as about being worth recognition.

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

Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty.

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

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

The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are, and not as we wish them to be. Facts lend themselves to manipulation. Many a butcher's hand is worth more than its weight in gold. What we want things to be, we come to see them to be; and the tailor pulls the coat and the truth into a perfect fit from his point of view.