It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

The historic idea that the devil tempts men had this remarkable effect, it produced the man of iron who fought; the modern idea of blaming his heredity or his circumstances produces the man who gives in at once.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

It is a life of FAITH, not of intellect and reason, but a life of knowing Who makes us “go.

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .