Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.
The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.