Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

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

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."

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.