Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

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

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

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.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.