Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise."

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.