Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.