The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.

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

Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.