To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.