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.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

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

O, do not pray for easy lives.