The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.