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.

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 man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.